[META] Character mangling by this listserver and other factors (was Re: Startup items applet problem)
[META] Character mangling by this listserver and other factors (was Re: Startup items applet problem)
- Subject: [META] Character mangling by this listserver and other factors (was Re: Startup items applet problem)
- From: Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 18:44:06 +0100
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At 08:49 -0500 UTC, on 17/03/2001, Rob Jorgensen wrote:
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On 3/16/01, Joel Davies commented:
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>Oops: the 3does not equal2 character in my scripts disappeared somewhere
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>between Outlook Express and the list. Asking as a newbie to the list, how
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>do you all get characters like 3does not equal2 to post?
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It's a long story (puleeze don't ask!). ;-)
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In Script Debugger,
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3 does not equal 2
{grin}
I think Joel actually wrote
does not equal
inbetween 'curly' quotes, which were converted to "3" and "2" somehere along
the road from him to you (and me, and probably some others).
2 things to get around this:
1) Don't ever use 'high-ASCII' characters (like 'curly' quotes) unless you
know for a fact that the recipient's mail client can handle that. Something
you can never know on a public list. This has nothing to do with Applescript,
or this list in particular.
2) Of course you need some 'special' non-ASCII charaters in AppleScript (such
as the continuation character and the does not equal character), but
currently the list server mangles them :( Too bad, but it's the reality.
Ways around this are to spell some things differently: For instance, "does
not equal" can be written as:
/=
The continuation character can be circumvented if you rewrite your script to
only use short lines. But that's not ideal of course.
There are some encoding scripts available to get around all this. One is
R23's "Convert Script", availabe at
<
http://homepage.mac.com/richard23/applescript03.html#ConvertScript>. Works
well and is easy to use, but of course the draw back is that both the sender
and recipient must use this script. Then again, as long as the list server is
broken this seems to be the only option.
Hm... Perhaps it would be a good idea to add this information to the
"welcome" message when people subscribe to this list?
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