On Jun 7, 2010, at 12:08 PM, John Delacour wrote: > At 08:37 -0400 7/6/10, Deivy Petrescu wrote: > >> John, >> I believe that with 10.6 (or 10.5, I am not sure, someone might clarify that) >> >> Unicode text=text=string >> >> so x as string is as good as x as Unicode text. > > Unless, like me, you can't for the moment justify as computer that will run those things! > > The wonderful thing now, of course, is that nearly every application has a scripting dictionary full of the same old incomprehensible garbage and no actual scriptability, with the noble exceptions of BBEdit, Smile etc. It is anarchy on a Microsoftian scale. > > Can you get the selected text using Apple events in TextEdit or Mail yet? Does Preview for Snow Leopard understand Apple events? Can you script the iMad?!! > I see you did not lose your sense of humor.... :) > JD Deivy Petrescu [log in to unmask]