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Re: String works, variable that's a string does not.

Subject: Re: String works, variable that's a string does not.
From: Lorin Rivers <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:45:14 -0500

On Apr 28, 2004, at 4:43 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:

On Apr 28, 2004, at 1:38 PM, Lorin Rivers wrote:

Howcum?

Because text returned of a dialog is a unicode string, and the file type and creators require plain old ASCII strings.

"Set text_returned to text_returned as string" will not do it, even though it appears to make the change. here is a work around that works:

Thanks. Jeez, AppleScript, the Read-Only Programming Language
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