Re: Hat bug.
Re: Hat bug.
- Subject: Re: Hat bug.
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 04:26:07 -0800
At 11:46a +0000 03/19/2004, Mr Tea didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:
In script editor and script debugger, I just get blank dialog boxes
for any combination of hat+numeral with numerals 0-3.
Y'know, I didn't understand why Emmanuel called it a "hat bug" until
you wrote "hat+numeral". Then I remembered 33 years ago my French
teacher said that the circonflex was also referred to as a chapeau.
^_^ (hats for anime eyes?)
Those combinations also show up blank when included in longer strings, eg:
display dialog "^16^23"
--> "63"
We'll have to watch that... perhaps build extra smarts into our code
to "literalize" any occurrences of ^0 thru ^3.
Hmm... but how to do that? Escaping doesn't work.
OK, one could embed an ASCII NUL between the ^ and the 0|1|2|3.
set ascNUL to ASCII character 0
display dialog "^" & ascNUL & "16" & "^" & ascNUL & "23"
Since it's zero width, the reader sees what we intended.
Anyone got a better idea?
BTW, this occurs on 10.2.8, but not on 7.6.1.
Anyone with system versions in between wanna narrow its debut down further?
Ceci n'est pas un chapeau!
(With apologies to Belgian surrealists and cedilla-lovers everywhere)
LOL.
-Voltaire
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