Re: path to as string
Re: path to as string
- Subject: Re: path to as string
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:15:19 -0700
- Thread-topic: path to as string
On 6/28/05 5:11 PM, "has" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Let me try this one: because in practice, the whole business of Unicode text
>> v string v MacRoman text causes all sorts of anomalies,
>
> Have you any specific examples? I was trying to think of some earlier, but I
> could only really come up with various hoary old string vs Unicode text issues
> which isn't what Chris was asking about.
There are a lot. I seem to recall issues in previous OS versions with SOAP
and XML-PRC calls - perhaps these have been fixed in Tiger.
My own problems are with the 24U Appearance Osax, which I need to use in one
of my shareware apps for a progress bar, since AppleScript doesn't provide
one. It needs plain text for the text labels on the window containing the
progress bar. It displays, in addition to text I supply, contact names
derived from Address Book and Entourage, which are Unicode apps. I need to
convert the Unicode to plain text, not just string, and also have an method
for handling those cases ("real" Unicode with no string coercion) that
error. It took a while to figure all that out. As Shane says, if everything
just worked smoothly, I wouldn't have to know any of this - but that's not
the case. I need to know all about it so I can take care of things.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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