Re: Bad Characters from Unicode
Re: Bad Characters from Unicode
- Subject: Re: Bad Characters from Unicode
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 14:03:51 -0400
Whoa, nelly. Unicode is not the problem. Perhaps you mean "is
AppleScript support for Unicode ready for prime time?"
But if you leave off the "as unicode text" in the assignment, then
it's NOT unicode, so I don't see how even the qualified question
applies here...
On 9/30/07, Luther Fuller <email@hidden> wrote:
> An additional question and answer ...
>
> Q:
> I use the following code to replace sub-strings of multiple
> 'specialChar's with a single 'specialChar'.
> If I use only Unicode strings and DO NOT CONVERT to ascii strings,
> will this code break and, if so, under what conditions?
>
> set specialChar to space as Unicode text
> set i to 0 -- diagnostic
> repeat until (offset of (specialChar & specialChar) in unicodeText) = 0
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {specialChar & specialChar}
> set wordList to (text items of unicodeText) as list
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {specialChar}
> set unicodeText to wordList as text
> --
> set i to (i + 1) -- diagnostic
> if (i > 100) then exit repeat -- diagnostic
> end repeat -- multiple spaces replaced with single space
> display dialog i default answer unicodeText
>
> A:
> Yes, this code can break under the right conditions.
> Breaking this code requires that:
> 1. the phrase " as Unicode text" is missing from the first line; and
> 2. the unicode string must contain one of the bad characters; and
> 3. specialChar must be a space (or perhaps some other unknown
> character).
> (In other words, when I try setting specialChar to "!" or "x"
> or a few other
> characters, the code does not break.)
>
> Is Unicode ready for prime time?
>
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