Re: accessing a property of an object in AppleScript
Re: accessing a property of an object in AppleScript
- Subject: Re: accessing a property of an object in AppleScript
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:22:35 -0800
- Thread-topic: accessing a property of an object in AppleScript
No, that's the fault of your email client, which sent back your reply,
containing my quoted text with chevrons, as charset="us-ascii". (It even
quotes my own headers as charset=3D"ISO-8859-1", but simply ignores that
when returning as us-ascii.)
My own mail both was sent *and came back from the mailing list* with
charset="ISO-8859-1", and encoded as quoted-printable, that knows how to
encode chevrons. I see chevrons in my message that came back from the list.
It's only in your message that I see them replaced (in my quoted text) by
question marks.
Your email client didn't even preserve the quoted-printable, though it says
it does. Instead of your Source showing
=ABchevrons=BB
it shows the question marks:
?chevrons?
Your source also doesn't disclose your User-Agent, but the presence of such
headers as X-MS-TNEF-Correlator leads me to believe that you're sending
from Outlook on a Windows PC.
When this mailing list converted to HTML-capable and accepting of
non-MacRoman and non-us-ascii character sets, we were also told it would
cope with messages from Windows and Unix computers and encodings. So either
your version of Outlook (or whatever email client) is doing something newer
than this mailing list software knows what to do with, or else it is even
worse and converted my chevrons to question marks even in my original
message as displayed on your machine. Is that what happened? Naturally, if
it sends back us-ascii ? question marks, that's what everyone will see.
Very odd if your Outlook simply displayed question marks in my original
email when its character set was "ISO-8859-1", and was encoded as
quoted-printable. I wasn't aware that there was any email client out there
not doing the right thing. Now I know, I guess. But most readers are reading
on Mac computers, and I'm pretty sure all modern Mac email clients will show
the «chevrons» correctly.
--
Paul Berkowitz
> From: Scott Babcock <email@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:27:05 -0800
> To: AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>
> Subject: RE: accessing a property of an object in AppleScript
>
> Paul,
>
> You've just succeeded in proving the opposite. Take a look at how the
> "chevrons" showed up in the digest version of this DL and then tell me that I
> don't need to use the "<< >>" workaround.
>
> - Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:29:56 -0800
> From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: accessing a property of an object in AppleScript
> To: AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>
> Message-ID: <C53E4A44.64909¾email@hidden>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
>
> On 11/10/08 1:54 PM, "Scott Babcock" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> NOTE: The "<<" and ">>" are actually angle-quote characters. Use the
>> <option-\> and <options-shift-\> key chords to generate these.
>
> Scott, it has not been necessary to use these << >> workarounds in emails to
> this mailing list for about 3 years.
>
> Just use the proper ?chevrons? and be done with it.
>
> --
> Paul Berkowitz
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