Re: Why does Entourage have to be set to Japanese beforethis script will work?

[Paul Berkowitz]

Title: Re: Why does Entourage have to be set to Japanese before this script will work?

Yes. But Dan says to use 'as Unicode text' again when re-setting properties. Unicode text is binary data. So that's how it's stored in the variable you set. ASCII characters 0-127 (well, 32-127) will display as regular text so you can include them in a mixed Unicode string along with Japanese, if you like.

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Paul Berkowitz

From: Eric Hildum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 16:22:45 -0700
To: Entourage Mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why does Entourage have to be set to Japanese before this script will work?

This implies than that the Merge Contacts script should also use the as Unicode text for extraction/insertion of data. If I read the data as Unicode text, does Apple script keep track of the Unicode status for the setting later?


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Eric Hildum

From: Dan Crevier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 15:43:30 -0700
To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why does Entourage have to be set to Japanese before this script will work?

For now, the simple ways i which you're using Japanese should work with 'as Unicode text'. I think. I've noticed that it seems to be essential to add that when reading text. I'm a little surprised to see it crop up when setting properties, but probably it's because the encoding is mis-transcribed. Try it anyway, and let us know what happens.

It’s absolutely essential when setting properties.  If it’s left out, we just get a blob of text and we have no idea what encoding is being used.  So, we assume it’s the encoding that the app’s registered for.