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Re: badly decomposed


  • Subject: Re: badly decomposed
  • From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:12:37 -0800

On Mar 28, 2006, at 3:39 PM, otempores wrote:

Problem; iTunes 6.0.4 returns badly decomposed path of track locations if that path contains accented characters.
For example sacute is decomposed into s+acute accent instead of s +combining acute accent. This poses major problems for I'm unable to process this files unix shells?


Suggestions anybody?

I can't reproduce this problem with Mac OS X 10.4.5 and iTunes 6.0.4. For example:


tell application "iTunes"
tell library playlist 1
set p to location of track "sound_bubbles"
end tell
end tell
do shell script "ls -l " & (quoted form of POSIX path of p)
--> "-rw-rw-r-- 1 nebel apple_sw 444572 Jun 15 2005 /Users/ nebel/Bugs/problem/élève/sound_bubbles.wav"


If you're having a problem, it's most likely in your script. iTunes' "location" property is returned as an alias, for which the concept of composition is meaningless. Do you, perchance, say "as string" at any point between getting the location and asking for the POSIX path? Because a "string" object in AppleScript will only use composed characters, and that change will be propagated through the "POSIX path" part. The solution is simple: don't do that. "POSIX path" applies perfectly well to an alias.


--Chris Nebel AppleScript and Automator Engineering

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