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Re: Is it possible to change AppleScript's default text encoding?
From:
Shane Stanley <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:27:45 +1000
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On 18/8/07 11:44 PM, "David Livesay" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I think what was happening in my case is that the script was coercing
> UTF-8 output from runpsynch to UTF-16.

Think of it not so much as coercing output, but rather storing Unicode text
in the format that AppleScript uses for Unicode, UTF16. The text is the
text; it's really a question of storage methods.

-- 
Shane Stanley <[log in to unmask]>
<http://scriptingmatters.com/aspro>

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