>At 5:09 PM -0500 2/15/06, Bill Steele wrote:
>>What is it about that one page...?  Or more to the point, when does 
>>Applescript automatically turn text into Unicode?
>
>You don't say how the file is written finally: is that a "write"?
>
>If such is the case, and probably also otherwise, you may find 
>valuable information in our page about AppleScript and Unicode. 
>Focus on our "notes".
><http://www.satimage-software.com/en/unicode_and_applescript.html>
>
>Emmanuel

Thanks.  the "extract string". function may fix it, but I still want 
to know why it's there in the first place.  I certainly don't have 
any "as Unicode text" statements anywhere.
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