I.
In fact, it will, from at least System 7. I’m not sure about earlier than that. For Mac OS 7 through 9.2, you need to change the font used to display the file names to a font for the language you intend to use, e.g., Osaka for Japanese. It is recommended that you choose a fixed (non-porportional) font for this. If I remember correctly, you select the Views control panel to change the font. This will work on both HFS and HFS+ disks. I am not sure what HFS used, but HFS+ disks use Unicode for the file name, in both cases you can name a file anything you like, you just cannot see the names in more than one language (or, more accurately, one language plus English) at a time.
In OS X, (which is the context for my question) the Finder should be able to handle displaying any language simultaneously, but I must admit I have not tried this.
II.
Cut and paste of Japanese text does work as I indicate, but not from Microsoft apps. I’ve just opened a text document (with textedit) and entered some Japanese. I can then cut this text and paste it into the name of a folder without problems. It will not work from the Office applications as far as I can tell, presumably because being older carbon apps, they do not use the updated text support in OS 9 and OS X. This is likely to be a problem for any application that does not use ATSUI or Cocoa text handling.
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But the system won’t let you do that! With my OS being US English, the system refuses to let me name any file or folder with a Japanese, Russian or even Czech name including diacriticals. I have to say this surprises me, but there you are. Paste into a text file of an editor that supports Unicode, like TextEdit, or do it via AppleScript in a file made by ‘open for access’.
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Am I correct in thinking that the fastest and easiest way to get Unicode would be to type or copy the text into a file or folder name, then cut and paste into Applescript?
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Eric Hildum
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On 6/24/02 5:23 PM, I wrote:
I too found that trying to write Japanese literals in a script editor turned it to mojibake when compiling. i asked one of the AppleScript engineers how he ever codes in Unicode. I'll look up his answer, but I think he said he uses Project Builder, which is Unicode-enabled. I'll go check.
Nope. This is what he said:
"I use a combination of osascript and Script Editor. Script Editor can
mostly display Unicode, it just does it as styled text. At some point
we'll have to create a script editor that really understands Unicode;
whether that will be the existing Script Editor or a new application
(which may or may not be called Script Editor) is an open question. "
I believe that there was some talk of such-like things-to-come at WWDC.
So your Osaka is really just displaying styled text, not creating Unicode. That must be why you're having problems.
