Re: Posix path and High Ascii Characters
Re: Posix path and High Ascii Characters
- Subject: Re: Posix path and High Ascii Characters
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 09:25:30 -0700
On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 05:26 AM, Alain Content wrote:
Posix path does not change high ascii characters (ie, i h g etc...)
which
sometimes make unix paths unapplicable for shell scripts or terminal.
Actually, the problem is with "do shell script", not "POSIX path". It
doesn't understand the proper text encoding to use with shell commands.
The simplest solution is to upgrade to 10.2 Jaguar, which fixes the
bug. Failing that, a technique has been described here a few times to
mangle the path into UTF-8 by hand.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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