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Re: Unicode madness
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John Delacour <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:25:29 +0000
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At 5:13 pm -0500 17/2/06, Bill Steele wrote:

>Text starts as Word document
>Copy as styled text, paste into Tex-Edit
>Use Tex-Edit replace and style run functions to convert to HTML 
>(used to use convertToHTML OSAX in OS 9)
>Read into Applescript variable

Are you aware that in TextEdit you can open a .doc file and save it 
as html thanks to Tiger's built-in Cocoa HTML Writer?  There's one 
way to eliminate both Word and Tex-Edit Plus (I presume that is the 
app you're talking about) in one foul sweep, as Aunt Eileen would 
say, and end up with pretty well written UTF8-encoded html that you 
then deal with.

JD

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