Re: AppleScript and international characters
Re: AppleScript and international characters
- Subject: Re: AppleScript and international characters
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 19:31:45 -0700
On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 05:59 PM, Christina Zeeh wrote:
If I get text from a compose window in Mail.app, and this text
contains umlauts, the text will be truncated at the first
umlaut. This also seems to happen with OmniGraffle, for which a
lot of nice scripts exist to export text into various formats -
but none of those scripts work with German umlauts.
I'm new to AppleScript, so if I missed something trivial, I'd
be glad if you could point it out to me.
The script I've tried is:
[schnipt]
On OS X 10.1.5 and older it's a problem with Cocoa's
AppleScript. It can't even handle Cut/Copy/Paste[1]. I won't
know until the weekend if it's been fixed in Jaguar.
Our only hope for all Mail problems seems to be to petition the
Mail maintainer 'cricket' to implement custom AppleEvent
handlers in Mail until such time as the Cocoa frameworks can
deal with everyday things that everyone expects a handsome OS
would have. Such custom events are very easy for a programmer to
put in an application and can be designed such that they would
not interfere with a future implementation in Cocoa.
[1] Actually there is a remnant of NeXT OS called 'pbpaste'
revealed to us by David Meieran which does work in a "do shell
script" but it's sibling 'pbcopy' doesn't seem to fare so well.
Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca
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