Re: Weird
Re: Weird
- Subject: Re: Weird
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:52:24 +0100
- Mac-eudora-version: 5.3a5
At 12:11 pm -0700 17/10/02, Chris Espinosa wrote:
One of two things is happening. Either the string-to-Unicode coercion
is promoting ASCII character 202 to the same Unicode character that
ASCII character 32 coerces to (so the space characters are in fact
identical, therefore one does contain the other); or the underlying
Unicode string comparison utilities that AppleScript uses are being
liberal and considering all spaces to be equal. That may not be what
you want in this particular circumstance, but in many other
circumstances, it is -- others may not want a script to fail when it's
looking for a space between two names just because it happens to be a
wider or thinner space than normal.
For what it's worth, Mac character 202 (U+00A0) is neither thinner
nor fatter by nature than a space but is distinguished only by its
non-breaking quality. There are at least a dozen other Unicode
characters that have do have relative width as a characteristic, such
as the em space etc. I doubt very much if a special routine has been
devised for AppleScript to enable it to second-guess its small band
of users and question their typographical skills, but who knows? Who
will ever know anthing about the deep and disturbed psyche of
AppleScript?
JD
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