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Problem with filenames containing Kanji chars

Subject: Problem with filenames containing Kanji chars
From: Bill Hoffman <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 11:15:15 -0800

I can only conclude that this is a bug in AppleScript (OS X 10.1.2). Someon=
e
please confirm or let me know otherwise.

With the following script:

> set x to choose file
> tell application "Finder=B2
> set theFileName to name of x
> end tell
>>>=20
I get the following error:

=B3Can't get name of "path:filename".

When the filename contains kanji characters. I can=B9t get any properties of
the file.=20

Also, when I try to pass this filename from AS to a shell script (correctly
using POSIX path and escaping any "!$&\"'*(){[|;<>?~` \\" chars in the path=
)
I get a =8Cfile does not exist=B9 error message returned when trying to operate
on it. What gets passed to the shell script (no matter what type of string =
I
try and coerce it to) is a plain text string of high-bit chars that does no=
t
correspond to the string of high-bit chars for the filename I would get for
this file when globbing the filename in a shell script.

Can anyone explain?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
<html>
<head>
<title>untitled 2</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Script Debugger 3.0" />
</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5">
<tr bgcolor="black">
<td width="50%" height="20">

<a name="top"></a>untitled 2 (AppleScript)

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<td width="50%" height="20">

Wednesday, January 23, 2002

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</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
<td width="100%" colspan="2"></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#eeeeee">
<td colspan="2">
set x to (choose file) as Unicode text 
 
tell application "Finder" 
   set theFileName to name of x 
end tell
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</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#eeeeee">
<td colspan="2">

<a href="#top">Top</a> | <a href="http://www.latenightsw.com/";>Made with Script Debugger 3.0</a>

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</body>
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