Re: Clipboard and Entourage
Re: Clipboard and Entourage
- Subject: Re: Clipboard and Entourage
- From: Jay Louvion <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:54:48 +0200
>
> Entourage has used Unicode text since its inception in Entourage 2001
> (Classic), even before OS X. Its clipboard transfers Unicode characters -
> and I mean REAL Unicode characters that can't even be represented as
> mishmash international text - to and from TextEdit, Word 2004, etc. all the
> time. It was Unicode long before AppleScript was. Entourage's AppleScript
> used to resolve to string if you didn't include 'as Unicode text' up to and
> including the previous version, Entourage X, but in Entourage 2004 even that
> is not necessary - its text is Unicode by default.
>
> But Jay is using Entourage 10.1.6 - X. Even there, you should be able to
> paste Unicode from the clipboard into Entourage. Jay should try doing that
> manually. But maybe the AppleScript implementation of 'set the clipboard' in
> Entourage X pastes just as string - then something gets muddled because the
> accents, as Matt says - are understood as Unicode and it's the wrong flavor
> for that part of the clipboard or something.
>
> I don't have Entourage X functioning ay the moment. Jay, what happens if you
> 'set the clipboard to "[your long French text]" as Unicode text'? It works
> in 2004 (and without it), but maybe not in 10.1.6.
Indeed, nada.
J.
Jay Louvion
Studio Casagrande
3, rue Müller-Brun
1208 Geneva
T+4122 840 3272
F+4122 840 3271
skypeme:
jaylouvion
www.studiocasagrande.com
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