Re: Unicode to plain text ( funklessly ) (not)
Re: Unicode to plain text ( funklessly ) (not)
- Subject: Re: Unicode to plain text ( funklessly ) (not)
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 23:56:30 -0400
On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 02:41 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
SNIP
That gives you 'international string' which is styled text, not plain
text.
You too have not been paying attention the last several months.
--
Paul Berkowitz
On the contrary, I have been following the Unicode threads in
particular.
This thread specifically started when...
On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, at 03:02 PM, Jon Pugh wrote:
CodeWarrior wants plain text to insert into its windows, class TEXT.
And in an earlier thread (Unicode to plain text) On Thursday, September
5, 2002, at 04:28 AM, Christopher Nebel wrote:
[1] "string" objects are sent out in events as plain text (aka
typeText) if they have no style information at all. String constants
never have style information.
My error was in assuming that I could create such a styleless string by
ignoring the style data. AS dutifully maintains it for me if any
element used in creating the string had any style info.
Mea culpa.
While investigating this I find more strange things afoot with this
Unicode stuff.
set prevdelimiter to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
set U to "Hello" as Unicode text
text items of U
-->{"", "", "e", "l", "l", "o"}
--set AppleScript's text item delimiters to prevdelimiter
--
Paul Skinner
...thinking the Brits are behind this... ; )
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