Re: Class ksty
Re: Class ksty
- Subject: Re: Class ksty
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 12:57:13 -0700
On Aug 2, 2008, at 10:44 AM, Laine Lee wrote: I know I'm slow getting around to this, but in Tiger
"some text" as Unicode text as string as record
--> {«class ktxt»:"some text", «class ksty»:«data
styl0001000000000010000E00030000000C000000000000»}
Now in Leopard
"some text" as Unicode text as string as record
--> {«class ktxt»:"some text"}
I have a script or two that I'm rather fond of that uses «class ksty».
Is there any way to get it? Why shouldn’t I want it? Or maybe I
should be asking what documentation explains this change
and how I might work around it. Thanks.
This has to do with Leopard AppleScript's shift to pure Unicode: text objects are all unstyled Unicode text -- in old-school terms, the same thing as "Unicode text". We made the "as record" bit work at least a little bit because of the trick people used to create "plain" text for certain defective applications:
«class ktxt» of ("some text" as string as record)
This is a no-op under Leopard -- you still get Unicode text out the other end -- but it doesn't fail. The old "styled text" type (and the 'ksty' data is part of that) has been deprecated simply because it doesn't work very well these days -- there are large swaths of characters that it simply can't represent. Honestly, I have difficulty imagining what you'd do with the 'ksty' part of the record in the first place.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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