Re: AppleScript and international characters
Re: AppleScript and international characters
- Subject: Re: AppleScript and international characters
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 12:17:17 +0100
At 5:23 pm -0700 21/8/02, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
There is no script editor - yet - that lets you type Unicode text
straight in and compiles it correctly, although Script Debugger, for one,
will display Unicode correctly in its result windows.
Script Editor will do just the same as Script Debugger but it is an
illusion and neither can in fact display Unicode characters unless it
is able to convert these to one of the old character sets, so what
you are seeing is the result of a conversion by the TECs.
If you have a file containing an polytonic Greek or Sanskrit, for
example, even if you have the a Unicode font that includes these, as
I do, neither program will display the characters and you'll just get
question marks. Only such programs as TextEdit, Mail and OmniWeb (a
great browser) are capable of displaying the characters properly, and
though there are a few embryonic third party efforts (Sue, Okido)
coming along, these are so buggy and unstable at the moment that
they're not worth trying.
JD
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