Re: Text, rich text and unicode text in Lion
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 16:42:13 -0700
Hey there, on Tue Aug 9 16:34:30 2011, Luther Fuller wrote the following interesting missive:
> Ah Ha! I opened the script in Lion and searched for "as unicode text" and "as text".
> Every occurrence of "as unicode text" is inside a 'tell application "Mail"' block.
> Every occurrence of "as text" is NOT inside a 'tell application "Mail"' block.
>
> But, aren't 'text' and 'unicode text' equivalent?
> Or should I replace 'unicode text' with 'string'? Or does it matter?
Apparently there are three possibilities within mail:
"as rich text" which can be compiled from "as text"
"as string" which can be compiled from "as plain text"
"as Unicode text" which apparently has to be typed just like that.
-- Michelle
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and the pessimist fears this is true." --James Branch Cabell
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