Re: Getting Info from the Finder
Re: Getting Info from the Finder
- Subject: Re: Getting Info from the Finder
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 08:19:14 -0400
1. Did you see my Python solution? I think it will work for you.
2. Bash is outputting a '?' because it thinks your terminal can only
handle ASCII. You could try setting LC_ALL to a UTF-8 locale (e.g.
"en_US.UTF-8" for US English) and see if that helps that case.
On Thursday, May 20, 2010, Thomas Fischer <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Mark any Tommy,
>
> Am 19.05.2010 um 17:42 schrieb Mark J. Reed:
>
>> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Thomas Fischer <email@hidden> wrote:
>>> Hi Mark,
>>> I didn't find any way to evaluate \U00A9 directly, but at least I can
>>> convert from hex number X to decimal number Z using
>>> do shell script ("printf \"%d\" 0x" & X)
>>> Unfortunately, printf seams to be completely unaware not only of Unicode,
>>> but of any characters beyond ASCII 127:
>>> e.g.
>>> printf "%b" "\x7e" -> ~
>>> but
>>> printf "%b" "\xe4" -> ?
>>
>> Well, that outputs exactly what you asked for - the one-byte value
>> 0xe4.
>
> I would expect
> printf "%b" "\x3f" -> ?
>
> the sign "?" as indicator for non identified character is a little problematic.
>
>> Which would work if you were using a one-byte character set
>> like Latin-1 or MacRoman. But for Unicode it doesn't work.
>
> I think it is a sign of shortcomings on the side of the shell.
> If my text editor required to type "ä" every time I need an "ä", I would discard it quickly.
> But this is exactly what the shell does:
> printf "%b" "\xC3\xA4" -> ä
> There are other shells, which behave better, e.g. the Z shell zsh:
> printf "%b" "\u00E4\n" -> ä
>
> (Without the \n zsh creates some very strange output, something like dozens of spaces stacked on top of each other.)
> or for that matter even easier:
> print "\u00E4" -> ä
> You can obtain this result from the standard shell using e.g.
> echo 'print \"TeX \\U00A9 output 2008.01.24\"'|zsh ->
> "TeX © output 2008.01.24"
> So I thought I was home free, but alas:
> do shell script "echo 'print \"TeX \\U00A9 output 2008.01.24\"'|zsh" ->
> "TeX "
> Everything from the \U00A9 onward vanishes!
>
> So I keep on looking for better solutions.
> Tommy's hint didn't seem to work for me.
>
> Thomas
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