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Re: Text, rich text and unicode text in Lion
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Re: Text, rich text and unicode text in Lion


  • Subject: Re: Text, rich text and unicode text in Lion
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:27:41 -0700

Hey there, on Tue Aug 9 16:10:43 2011, Shane Stanley wrote the following interesting missive:

>> Typing this:
>>
>>     tell application "Mail"
>> 	"abc" as text
>> end tell
>>
>> Compiles as this:
>>
>> tell application "Mail"
>> 	"abc" as rich text
>> end tell
>
>
> Right. If you look in Mail's dictionary, it defines "rich text" as «class ctxt», which is actually defined in the AppleScript language as simply "text". It's a bug in Mail.

But as I illustrated in my follow-up, there's an easy work around; if you want plain text, use "string".

-- Michelle

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References: 
 >Re: Re: Applescript and Lion (From: Emile Schwarz <email@hidden>)
 >Text, rich text and unicode text in Lion (From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Text, rich text and unicode text in Lion (From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Text, rich text and unicode text in Lion (From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Text, rich text and unicode text in Lion (From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>)

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