Re: Bad Character
Re: Bad Character
- Subject: Re: Bad Character
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:02:27 -0400
Well, it's not Ascii, for one thing. Nothing over 127 is. So you
said you're using MacRoman... Could be that whatever you're using for
email doesn't know that?
In Latin-1 and other ISO character sets, the codes 128 through 159 are
control sequences, not printable characters. 138 is a justifying
horizontal tab, I think...
On 9/27/07, Luther Fuller <email@hidden> wrote:
> An update ...
>
> More experimenting revealed that the offending character actually has
> ascii value 138. This is shown as an "è" character in an ascii table.
> When I displayed the subject text with ...
> display dialog "2" default answer subText
> the character displayed is "Ä", but when this is pasted into Smile as
> a comment it becomes "ä".
>
> I have encountered Mail subject lines with unicode characters that
> translate to ? with no problem, but ascii 138 seems to be an
> exception. Should I remove just ascii 138 or should I remove all
> characters with ascii number > 127 ?
>
> I can remove all ascii > 127 with this code ...
>
> set maxLen to (length of subText)
> repeat with i from maxLen to 1 by -1
> ASCII number (character i of subText)
> if the result > 127 then
> if i = 1 then
> text 2 thru -1 of subText
> else if i = maxLen then
> text 1 thru -2 of subText
> else
> (text 1 thru (i - 1) of subText) & (text (i + 1) thru -1 of subText)
> end if
> set subText to the result
> end if
> end repeat
>
> This solves my problem, but ... something is wrong with ascii char
> 138 !!!
> Anyone know what ? _______________________________________________
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