Re: "~" vs. "POSIX file"
Re: "~" vs. "POSIX file"
- Subject: Re: "~" vs. "POSIX file"
- From: kai <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:09:13 +0100
On 25 Oct 2006, at 23:44, Christopher Nebel wrote:
On Oct 25, 2006, at 3:09 PM, kai wrote:
The string class, resulting as it does from concatenating plain
and Unicode text, is actually styled text - and the style data
seems to be enough to preserve the non-Latin characters. However,
because of that received wisdom, one can't help wondering...
Styled text can represent *some* non-Latin characters, and it can't
represent all Latin characters -- I believe some E. European
letters are left out in the cold. Rather than attempt to explain
what works and what doesn't, we just steer people to Unicode.
Thanks, Chris. I figured the explanation might be something along
those lines - but the clarification is helpful.
To return to the thrust of Nigel's question, this presumably implies
an outside chance that the concatenation of (system attribute "HOME")
with the Unicode text returned from, say, "MailDownloadsPath" might
not work as expected in every conceivable case.
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kai
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