Re: Hex > Text
Re: Hex > Text
- Subject: Re: Hex > Text
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:17:14 -0700
I can confirm Paul's remarks. I have been threatened, twice, with expulsion
from this list if I persisted in complaining about this same problem.
(You'll note I'm not complaining about it here. :-)) And I must mention that
on one of those occasions we were told that this would be taken care of
after a higher priority - making the list archives searchable - was done.
That was 4 years ago. The archives were made as searchable as they are ever
going to be about two years ago. So I'm sure they're just on the point of
configuring the list servers for Macs, right?
I also note that I can send and receive high-bit characters from a Mac to
the Microsoft News Server, 98% of whose readers are on Windows, and the
characters are preserved in all directions.
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Paul Berkowitz
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From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:37:27 -0400
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To: AppleScript Users appleScript <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Hex > Text
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Careful Arthur, not only can you not post high-bit characters, you also
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can't post complaints about the fact that you can't. Seriously! You'll
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get the official email smack on the wrist if you keep it up.
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PS
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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about
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telescopes.
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-Edsger Dijkstra
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On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 12:28 PM, Arthur J. Knapp wrote:
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>> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:52:03 -0400
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>> Subject: Re: Hex > Text
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>> From: "Arthur J. Knapp" <email@hidden>
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>> on HexToString(sHex)
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>> try
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>> -- do script ("+data TEXT" & sHex & ";")
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> What the....
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> Aw, COME ON, APPLE! Knock it off.
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> Look, I don't know a whole lot about this sort of thing, but
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> jeeze, here in the 21st century, just how hard is it to have
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> a list-server that doesn't mangle high-bit characters? I mean,
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> look, you created a scripting language that USES high-bit
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> characters, doesn't it seem like the primary mailing list for
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> discussing the language should PASS THOSE CHARACTERS ALONG,
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> unmolested?
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> Really, is it hard? I send email to my Macintosh friends with
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> high-bit characters all the time, and never with any problems.
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> Could we use some sort of hybrid mailto:/ftp: protocal? Can we
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> use a code, like Â, or \xC2, or something that the server would
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> translate back to their high-bit form? Is there anyway I can post
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> LEGITIMATE APPLESCRIPT CODE without it coming out looking like
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> someone's newest creation in perl gobbledygook?
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