Re: Unicode-to-string bug?
Re: Unicode-to-string bug?
- Subject: Re: Unicode-to-string bug?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:22:36 -0800
On 11/23/04 10:06 PM, "Shane Stanley" <email@hidden> wrote:
> If I run the following:
>
> set y to «data utxt0061» as Unicode text
> set x to «data utxt2011» as Unicode text
> " " & (y as string)
> " " & (x as string)
> " " & y
> " " & x
>
> I get an error on the last line:
>
> --> Can't make "-" into a string.
>
> I this just an AS bug? Or am I missing something?
It seems to be an inconsistency. «data utxt2011» as Unicode text
(non-breaking hyphen) is not an ASCII character like «data utxt0061». it
looks as if 'x as string' will coerce it to a regular hyphen (known to
Unicode as HYPHEN-MINUS), namely
ASCII number (x as string)
--> 45
(i.e. Unicode 002D)
but
" " & x
which we expect to do an implicit coercion to string when concatenating
doesn't. I guess that's a bug.
By the way
set z to «data utxt2010» as Unicode text
" " & z
--> " -"
It works OK with HYPHEN (2010), but not NON-BREAKING HPHEN ( 2011).
--
Paul Berkowitz
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