Re: Unix file path problems
Re: Unix file path problems
- Subject: Re: Unix file path problems
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 04:03:25 -0700
At 05:38p -0700 06/27/2004, Walter Ian Kaye didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
At 12:15a +0100 06/28/2004, Martin Orpen didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
This works fine until you encounter unusual characters in the folder name,
like " " (option-f).
Is there a way of getting these characters interpreted correctly in a POSIX
path?
Well, Terminal *displays* them as "octal Unicode", and that's a
conversion which 'quoted form of' does not make. Option-f = \306\222
Bugaboo is that when I've tried typing that in Terminal, it doesn't
work; however, if I use tab-completion to enter the same characters,
then it works.
I haven't tried 'do script' though, nor quoting the octal-ized path.
I just tested further, and discovered that when I use tab-completion,
it does not enter "\306\222" as a string; it enters *2* characters,
which *display* as \306 and \222.
Now if I could just get Terminal to 'do script' at all, maybe I could
do some further testing. It don't wanna do no script, durn it. Just
iggs me. ::sigh::
Guess I'll just go to sleep.
I wanted to test stuff like "as Unicode text" to feed to 'do script'.
If anyone with a Terminal.app accepting events wants to pick up where
I have to leave off, be my guest...
-boo
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