Hi Tom, chinese characters almost always are an indication that text encoded as UTF8 is interpreted as UTF16. A simple explanation is here:
http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/smile/text/unicode_and_applescript.html That the sender is UTF16 is most likely a bug (looks very nice, by the way). I didn't find a way to do the conversion in AppleScript. The following page has a simple script to do this with Python: http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=25319 HTH On Aug 4, 2011, at 3:12 AM, Tom Dillon wrote: > Howdy y'all, > > When using the scrip below, the variable 'theSender' is always populated with > what looks like Chinese characters rather than the sender's name and email > address as I would have expected. Is there something I'm missing here? > > Thanks > > set theCR to " > " > set theFD to theCR & "----------" & theCR > > tell application "PowerMail" > set theMessages to current messages > repeat with msg in theMessages > set theSender to sender of msg as text > set theTitle to subject of msg as text > set theTime to time received of msg as text > set theBody to content of msg as text > > set theText to theSender & theFD & theTitle & theFD & theTime & > theFD & theBody & theFD > set the clipboard to theText > end repeat > end tell Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Regards Trixi Willius http://www.mothsoftware.com Mail Archiver X: The email archiving solution for professionals
