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 20:23:03 +0100
>>> 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
Being Arthur's code, most probably the recent version is faster than the old
one, perhaps 10 ticks every 1000 runs. ;-)
jj
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