Re: Unicode text and the annoying relic called "styled text"
Re: Unicode text and the annoying relic called "styled text"
- Subject: Re: Unicode text and the annoying relic called "styled text"
- From: jj <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:59:21 +0100
> On 12/21/04 3:18 PM, "Scott Babcock" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Here's what I had to do to get what I wanted:
>>
>> set utxt to "Foo" as Unicode text
>> set |TEXT| to utxt as string
>> try
>> set styledText to |TEXT| as record
>> set |TEXT| to <<class ktxt>> of styledText
>> end try
>> set the clipboard to {string:|TEXT|, Unicode text:utxt}
>>
>> The attempt to coerce |TEXT| to a record will fail if it's not styled
>> text, which is fine since that means that it's already a string. With
>> the addition of the 'try' block, I seem to have a complete, albeit
>> crufty, solution.
>> __________________
>
> Thus is really ancient here, Scott. It's been hacked to death for centuries.
> All you had to do was ask.
>
> Here's the version I use, as first discovered/invented by Arthur Knapp:
>
> on AsText(str)
> --coerce Unicode or other text to styled string to plain text
> try
> return (text of ((str as string) as record)) as string
> end try
> return str as string -- if plain text to begin with, or real Unicode
> end AsText
Here is my Arthur's version:
on AsPlainText(textual) --> Arthur Knapp
--
-- Where 'textual' values may include plain text,
-- 'international text', styled text, Pascal string,
-- C string, Unicode text, and =ABclass utf8=BB.
--
-- Unicode characters not having a single-byte
-- "mapping" come back as a question mark.
--
set {text:plainText} to textual as text
return plainText
end AsPlainText
jj
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> Paul Berkowitz
>
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