Re: Odd File Write Issue
Re: Odd File Write Issue
- Subject: Re: Odd File Write Issue
- From: andy knasinski <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 19:04:32 -0600
Thanks for the tip. My string was just a plain string (I believe) and
not unicode text.
The dictionary entry, below, didn't provide much help. I always
assumed if you wrote a string it was as text. I will adjust to try UTF8.
[as type class] : how to write the data: as text, data, list, etc.
On Dec 6, 2009, at 7:06 AM, email@hidden
wrote:
Well-known issue, andy. At some point (maybe that was Tiger), "write
this_data to the open_target_file" would (provided this_data is
Uniocde, which is very frequent, many apps talk Unicode) make a UTF-16
file (it used to produce Macintosh-encoded files before). UTF-16 is a
Unicode file format where our character set is rendered on two bytes,
one of them being 0.
I think that, to make Macintosh encoded files, you have to say
"write ... as string" and to make UTF-8 files (where our character set
is rendered mostly like ISO-8859) you says as «class utf8».
Maybe that's documented in the "write" entry in Standard Additions'
AppleScript dictionary.
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