Re: Re: unicode escape sequences in AppleScript strings
Re: Re: unicode escape sequences in AppleScript strings
- Subject: Re: Re: unicode escape sequences in AppleScript strings
- From: Matthew Stuckwisch <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:07:24 -0600
El martes, 14 ener, 2003, a las 12:57 US/Central,
email@hidden escribis:
I would love that we could enter some UTF-8 into an AppleScript
string variable - which is how I interpret what you're trying to
achieve.
I'd like this too ;)
Unfortunately, AFAIK, there is no way of filling an AppleScript
variable with UTF-8 (let alone 16) from scratch - you've got to
export Unicode from a Unicode-able app or from a file.
In private messages with a certain AppleScript engineer
(*coughChrisNcough*) I found out a little bit about this...I hope no
one minds me quoting:
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Me:
I guess there I was thinking about "ASCII character X" and there being
no Unicode equivalent for that command [1], and assuming that character
would refer back to ASCII .
[1] Pretty please? Pretty please with a sugar-coated Apple? :P
ChrisN:
Maybe. :-) I'm loathe to add two new scripting addition commands for
this (because of the semantics of "ASCII character/number", it's
impossible to extend them to Unicode and have it work right), but on
the other hand, it's likely to be a while until I can implement the
better solution I have in mind.
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I suppose that if the AppleScript Text Suite was to work on Unicode
text, then it would work very slowly since there is no longer a
one-to-one correspondance between bytes and characters in Unicode, so
(e.g.) getting "character n" of some string would really imply
reading the whole data from the first byte.
I recently reworked my AS Studio app to handle Unique such that I could
work better with Arabic, Russian, Runic, and Korean texts. My parser
isn't that much slower, just a little bit. It's nothing significantly
huge.
(I would like to be wrong)
Define "very slowly" ;) I know the speed freaks on the list here would
die with the speed change, but for anyone else, it's relatively
imperceptible.
So basically, it might come, but not any time in the near future. I
hope I'm not going to set Chris up for an inquisition on this one
though ;)
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