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Mail problems with special characters


  • Subject: Mail problems with special characters
  • From: Christian Walther <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 10:26:28 +0100

I have found a problem with scripting Mail 1.2.3 (v551) with mailbox names that contain non-ascii characters. It may be related to http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2002/Mar/25/ osxmailhasproblemwithger.txt but it's not exactly the same.

I have some mailboxes set up in the following way:

2003
02 Februar
03 Mdrz

where the "d" in Mdrz is a german a with umlaut (that will probably be destroyed by the list server, as far as I know it)

I can address the Februar mailbox as both 'mailbox "02 Februar"' and 'mailbox "2003/02 Februar"', but 'mailbox "2003/03 Mdrz"' returns nothing. 'mailbox "03 Mdrz"' however works as expected.

Running

tell application "Mail"
mailbox "02 Februar"
mailbox "03 Mdrz"
mailbox "2003/02 Februar"
mailbox "2003/03 Mdrz"
end tell

in Script Editor generates the following event log:

tell application "Mail"
get mailbox "02 Februar"
mailbox "2003/02 Februar"
get mailbox "03 Mdrz"
mailbox "2003/03 Mdrz"
get mailbox "2003/02 Februar"
mailbox "2003/02 Februar"
get mailbox "2003/03 Mdrz"
end tell

I have tried using the names 'as unicode text' but that didn't change anything.

-Christian
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