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Re: Unicode to plain text
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Re: Unicode to plain text


  • Subject: Re: Unicode to plain text
  • From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 23:39:41 +0100

At 2:34 pm -0700 20/9/02, Paul Berkowitz wrote:

So the Finder is meant to be doing exactly what TextEdit does. But
AppleScript gives us the "styled text" stuff for Finder file and folder
names, but JD got "real Unicode" out of TextEdit, at least when entered in
his specified manner.

In a word, the Mac understands Unicode fine and uses it, just as WinNT understands Unicode and uses it, but most things on the Mac and most things on a PC don't know how to render it. In general MS apps in WinNT+ are OK with Unicode -- not yet MS stuff for the Mac.

For say 15000 Han characters, there exist equivalents in the old Big5, GB or JIS character sets, and these can be displayed in any application after conversion, but there are many Han characters in Unicode that cannot be so displayed, and the Lao characters I used earlier as an example, or the polytonic Greek characters, equally exist in no 'legacy' charset and cannot be displayed in the outdated apps that still abound on our machines at this early stage in the new era. The Mac sees everything as Unicode and it helps dim-witted programs like Script Editor to find the nearest equivalent IF it exists, so if I name a file [greek small letter alpha with psili] (0x1F00), then Script Editor will be told to find a small alpha -- which it finds in the Japanese Osaka font -- and to draw an apostrophe after the alpha as an approximation of the psili, which would be drawn properly as a diacritic above the character.

The Finder will display file names in proper Unicode and not as styled text.

Does that make things any clearer?

JD
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