MacRoman to ISO Latin 1 [was: Re: URL encode trouble]
MacRoman to ISO Latin 1 [was: Re: URL encode trouble]
- Subject: MacRoman to ISO Latin 1 [was: Re: URL encode trouble]
- From: Helmut Fuchs <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 23:46:36 +0200
At 13:29 Uhr -0400 19.05.2002, Arthur J Knapp wrote:
> And, do you know a quick AS solution to translate "a" to "E1" (not "87")?
I don't know if anyone has created a Scripting Addition for conversion
to ISO 8859-1. I could create a vanilla conversion handler, it would just
be a question of creating a map between the high-bit characters of the
Macintosh standard character set and the ISO standard. We would also have
to decide how to handle a character that exists in one character set but
not in the other.
I haven't been following this thread closely, so it may already be
solved, but Unicode and ISO 8859-1 are nearly identical in the range
between 0x00 and 0xff (excluding the range from 0x80 to 0x9f).
You could use the following to let AppleScript do the Job (don't know
if this little quick and dirty Hack still works with current AS
Versions though):
"a" as Unicode text -- this is a-acute
{{coercionTrick:result}}
result as string
ASCII number of last character of result
==> 225
Or just use BBEdit.
But by far the best and least hacky option is to use Cyclone:
http://homepage.mac.com/tkukiel/
HTH,
Helmut
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