Re: NSAppleScript shies away from porcupines
Re: NSAppleScript shies away from porcupines
- Subject: Re: NSAppleScript shies away from porcupines
- From: Jason Coco <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:12:41 -0400
On Aug 26, 2008, at 16:54 , Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:
On 27 Aug 2008, at 02:09, has wrote:
Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:
When I try in Script Editor:
set macpath to POSIX file "/Volumes/เม่น/Users" as Unicode
text
and do "Compile", then this gets transformed into:
set macpath to file " ‘ßÀÏ:Volumes:‡¡Ëπ:Users" as Unicode
text
Sounds like you're on 10.4 or earlier.
Correct. I should have stated this in my posting.
The test that I did was under 10.5.4, so the "as alias" coercion still
definitely
fails with Unicode even in Leopard.
AppleScript only supports Unicode source code in 10.5+; previously
it used the host system's primary encoding, which is why your non-
MacRoman(?) characters are getting mangled. If you must use
AppleScript for some reason, either write your unicode string
literals using raw «data utxt...» format, or pass in unicode
strings as parameters to an Apple event constructed via
NSAppleEventDescriptor.
I might try this.
But it is good to know that AppleScript cannot be used on 10.4.
IMO, this is a pretty significant shortcoming for AppleScript.
Hopefully they fix that soon. Maybe a bug report should be filed?
/jason
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