Re: Applescript and characters accented in a path
Re: Applescript and characters accented in a path
- Subject: Re: Applescript and characters accented in a path
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 23:54:03 +0100
- Mac-eudora-version: 6.1a1
At 11:01 pm +0200 1/9/03, Jean-Baptiste LE STANG wrote:
Mac OS X uses Unicode. You must express all paths as 'Unicode
text' and not as 'string'. Strings are only the same as Unicode
(utf-8) if they contain only 7-bit characters.
So maybe you can try the following :
set f to path to desktop
set f to (f as Unicode text) as alias
You will not get the problem if you write
set f to path to desktop as Unicode text
set f to alias f
So there is a workaround, but this does seem to be a bug.
However, this will not work if there are Unicode characters in the
pathname, for the reason I mentioned:
set f to path to desktop as string
set f to alias f
To remove any doubt, it's best to experiment with a pathname that
simply cannot be converted to a string. This script will create such
a file and you will see in the result {the decomposed filename, the
filename in UTF-8}:
do shell script "perl -e '
$f = qq~$ENV{HOME}/Desktop/Syst\\x{1f72}me.txt~ ;
open F, qq~>$f~ ;
print $f;'"
set f to POSIX file result as Unicode text
{f, alias f}
JD
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