Re: Strange character changes
Re: Strange character changes
- Subject: Re: Strange character changes
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:03:05 +0100
At 1:39 PM -0500 10/30/06, W. Thomas Leroux wrote:
I've written a little applescript that takes the currently playing
song name and artist name and writes them to disk
However, I noticed that names with "odd" characters show up oddly, for
example, Björk gets saved as Bjsrk
Relevant code:
set current_song to (name of current track) as string
set current_artist to (artist of current track) as string
set write_to_disk to current_song & " - " & current_artist & return
set fileID to open for access file file_location with write permission
set eof of fileID to 0
write write_to_disk to fileID
close access fileID
Any suggestions?
Most probably write_to_disk is a Unicode string. When it stores a
Unicode string, AppleScript writes by default a UTF-16 file. This is
somehow very surprising - and very logical at the same time - and
it's normal that non-specialists be bitten.
So, I think you must choose either to read the file as UTF-16
(TextEdit can do that), or to write the file as Mac-Roman, with:
write write_to_disk to fileID as string
Emmanuel
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