Unicode Bad Characters
Unicode Bad Characters
- Subject: Unicode Bad Characters
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 09:23:08 -0500
About a year ago, we had a long discussion, subject "Bad Character",
then "Bad Characters from Unicode". I don't want to go into all the
gory details, again. The very short explanation is: Unicode characters
128 thru 159 will break AppleScript code.
I've been looking at this problem, again, this week. In OS X 10.5.4
and 10.4.11, my code seems not to break. A year ago , I was using
10.4.10, so perhaps something has been fixed.
But I'm still curious about Unicode characters 128 thru 159. Character
tables show them as control characters, but in Mail (in 10.4.10) some
of them were displayable. In Leopard's Mail, they are not displayable
characters. Leopard (10.5.4) will use these characters in a file name,
but will not display them.
If you want to see how this works, here's a quick script ...
(character id 126) & (character id 127) & (character id 128) &
(character id 129) & ¬
(character id 130) & (character id 131) & (character id 132) &
(character id 158) & ¬
(character id 159) & (character id 160) & (character id 161)
tell application "Finder" to make new folder at (path to desktop) with
properties {name:the result}
The new folder appears to be named "~ ¡". To see what it's really
named, attempt to edit the name.
Does anyone know of any tech note or other documentation that explains
how Leopard handles these characters?
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