Re: Unicode text and class URL
Re: Unicode text and class URL
- Subject: Re: Unicode text and class URL
- From: Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:34:49 +0100
At 00:03 -0800 UTC, on 2004/03/23, Christopher Nebel wrote:
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Wrong. AppleScript's "string" class may contain style information, and
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when converting from Unicode text, always does, because the encoding is
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implied by the style.
So it does. I clearly was confused.
The reason I joined this thread was that I recently ran into an issue with
this. I had some Unicode text that I needed to edit (concatenate and/or
replace some characters) and couldn't because something choked on that style
information. I worked my way around it without really being aware of what was
going on. Unfortunately, for the life of me I can't remember nor reproduce
the exact problem, nor my workaround. I was too rushed getting the script
working when I should have bothered to understand what was actually going on.
What 'stuck' was simply that there was some problem converting Unicode text
to string.
Several days later someone on <
news:alt.comp.lang.applescript> ran into the
same problem (just forwarded here by Michelle). And again a few days later
this came up here on AS-Users.
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If there's a bug here, it's that not all strings can be coerced to the
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"URL" class. The thing no one has asked yet is why the originator is
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bothering in the first place, since the "URL" class as it currently
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exists is fairly useless.
Probably true for this particular case, but this thread made me play with it
and I was pleasantly surprised to find that it can be used to find the IP
address behind a domain name:
set theIP to dotted decimal form of host of ("
http://www.apple.com"; as URL)
(Haven't tried what happens when you run this while not connected to the Net.)
--
Sander Tekelenburg, <
http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
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