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Re: For some strange reason


  • Subject: Re: For some strange reason
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 22:13:12 +1000
  • Thread-topic: For some strange reason

On 20/5/11 9:57 PM, "Christopher Stone" <email@hidden>
wrote:

> on Pugh's SmartString object does upper/lower case:
>
> http://www.seanet.com/~jonpugh/
>
> There are also some handlers out there that do a fine job - such as:
>
> http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=13297

But again, these are ASCII-only (some of the variants in the macscripter
thread also handles some common accented characters, but that's all).

It's a big world out there: not everyone restricts their language to
English. Using these sorts of methods is asking for your code to break.

(And yes, it's crazy that AppleScript still can't do this properly by
itself...)

--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>


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