Re: unicode to text string
Re: unicode to text string
- Subject: Re: unicode to text string
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 23:45:03 -0500
On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 12:26 PM, list account wrote:
A lot of apps now seem to return string as unicode. So you have first
to coerce your string to plain text. There is no easy way in
AppleScript to do this, but Steve Mills on SD-Talk (the Script
Debugger list) offered this solution.
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sd-talk/message/1130>
on u2a(s)
set num to number of characters of s
set res to ""
repeat with i from 1 to num
set res to res & (ASCII character (ASCII number
character i of s))
end repeat
return res
end u2a
Does any one have a better/ faster way? This is really slow for large
strings.
Samuel C. DeVore
I bet!
set someText to "abc" as Unicode text-->unicode text string
set {text:someText} to (text of someText) as text-->styled text string *
someText-->plain text string
* Note: Due to the unusual list assignment method; this line returns a
syled text string. The value of plainText is plain text despite this
result. If you had wanted styled text from unicode you could set
plainText to the result.
--
Paul Skinner
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