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: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:14:02 -0800
On 12/22/04 10:59 AM, "jj" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> 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
Yeah, I've got that (later) version too. I don't quite understand it yet.
;-) I'm not sure if it's meant to be better (more versatile), or just
shorter. Are there any cases where the first version won't work and the
second will?
--
Paul Berkowitz
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