Re: Clipboard and Entourage
Re: Clipboard and Entourage
- Subject: Re: Clipboard and Entourage
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:09:58 -0700
On Aug 29, 2005, at 6:55 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
On or about 8/29/05 6:35 PM, thus spake "Christopher Nebel"
<email@hidden>:
set x to "some unicode" as Unicode text
set the clipboard to x -- clipboard now contains 'utxt' (and
nothing else!)
You (matt) effectively did the former, Jay the latter. Sufficiently
old or ill-behaved applications such as Entourage do not understand
'utxt' flavor, and therefore don't see any paste-able data and
disable their "paste" command.
Ah. So this is all because of those accented e's and a's. Even
though they
are MacRoman, they are turned into Unicode when the data goes onto the
clipboard.
So there are two reasons I didn't see any problem. (1) I was using
text that
didn't get turned into Unicode.
No. "String" objects will never get spontaneously turned into 'utxt'
on send, and "Unicode text" objects will never get turned into 'TEXT'
on send. It got sent as 'utxt' because it was a "Unicode text"
object, and that happened because (1) display dialog's "text
returned" output is now Unicode and (2) concatenating "string" and
"Unicode text" now yields "Unicode text" regardless of the order.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript and Automator Engineering
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