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Re: Finder scripting dies
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Re: Finder scripting dies


  • Subject: Re: Finder scripting dies
  • From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:13:28 -0700

On Oct 21, 2003, at 12:51 PM, Emmanuel wrote:

At 9:31 AM -0700 10/19/03, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
This miscegenation of a list server has obscured the fact that the name of
his disk contains an accented letter (e-acute) - bowdlerized on this mailing
list to an "i".

Just in case it is not well-known, you cannot have AppleScript work correctly
on a machine where the startup disk's name includes an accented character (as
for OS10.2.6).

I filed the bug on sep.5th, it was accepted as #3410131 and its status Open/Analyze.

Just to be clear, "cannot have AppleScript work correctly" is a severe overstatement. The problem occurs specifically with path strings in the Finder, and happens when the disk name in the path has a non-ASCII character -- nothing to do with the startup disk's name per se.

It does not occur in plain AppleScript (e.g., using "info for"), and can be worked around in the Finder using either long specifiers (e.g., folder "foo" of disk "accent") or an extra "alias" (e.g., folder (alias "accent:foo:") ).


--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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