Re: Text, Unicode Text, and String coercion ...
Re: Text, Unicode Text, and String coercion ...
- Subject: Re: Text, Unicode Text, and String coercion ...
- From: Brian Johnson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:19:25 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Brian Johnson wrote:
I'm confused, bewildered and befuddled by the behavior of one of my scripts.
It was born under OS-9 and used an FMPro database to store info. It extracts
<snip>
I knew this had been hashed over a few times in the last couple of years,
explained by Chris Nebel, etc., but it took me a while to find it...
FWIW, Unicode converts to styled text under the "string" coercion, and
styled text sometimes doesn't work (as in this case).
However, Paul Skinner posted the following back in Dec 2002, and it works
just dandy in this case.
set someText to "abc" as Unicode text-->unicode text string
set {text:someText} to (text of someText) as text-->styled text string[*]
someText-->plain text string
[*]Note: Due to the unusual list assignment method; this line returns a
syled text string. The value of plainText is plain text despite this
result. If you had wanted styled text from unicode you could set
plainText to the result.
- brian johnson
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