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Re: linebreak in a shell script; was Re: What's wrong with this call to zip?
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Re: linebreak in a shell script; was Re: What's wrong with this call to zip?


  • Subject: Re: linebreak in a shell script; was Re: What's wrong with this call to zip?
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:05:01 -0500

So AppleScript now uses "character" in a way that doesn't match the
Unicode Standard.  As we've seen, it's a confusing topic to start
with, and this ain't gonna help matters...

But beyond the terminology I'm concerned with the practical
implications of the  fact that expressions like "id of character 5 of
myString" usually return a number but sometimes return a list...


On 2/29/08, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 29/2/08 7:01 PM, "Christopher Nebel" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > "text item delimiters" ignore cluster boundaries, and will happily
> > match part of a cluster, such as the "\r" in "\r\n".  I'm not
> > immediately sure if that should be considered a bug, but in the
> > interests of backward compatibility, I suspect the answer is "no".
>
> But surely that's inconsistent, in that it *won't* match the \n in \r\n. If
> backwards compatibility matters, surely the \n case matters too.
>
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