Apple Mail, HTML messages and text 1 VS character 1
Apple Mail, HTML messages and text 1 VS character 1
- Subject: Apple Mail, HTML messages and text 1 VS character 1
- From: Joe <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 11:14:19 -0700
I am attempting to script mail to transfer data to another
application and have hit a few snags. Most notable is how Mail's
"content" command handles 'some' (but not all) HTML messages.
For example, email from this list composed in HTML does not yield the
body of the message using the "content" command. Here, content
returns a "?" followed by the text appended by the server.
<Example>
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<End Example>
When I send myself a HTML message and ask for "content" there is no
problem, so I'm having a lot of trouble getting a handle on the
problem of why some HTML messages gladly give up their content to
AppleScript and some HTML messages do not, and how to identify the
boogers ahead of time.
Another question I have is about how "text 1" returns different
results depending on text type. The following two little scripts
demonstrate.
<this fails>
set a to "? this is a test"
set b to text 1 of a
-->Can't get text 1 of "? this is a test".
if I had substituted (set b to character 1 of a) in the second line
it would have worked
<this works>
set a to "? this is a test"
set a to a as Unicode text
--set b to text 1 of a
-->"?"
I would have thought these should be equivalent?
Thanks for any help.
Joe
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