powermail-discuss Digest #2935 - Thursday, August 4, 2011
AppleScript Sender Question
by "Tom Dillon" <[email protected]>
Re: AppleScript Sender Question
by "Beatrix Willius" <[email protected]>
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Subject: AppleScript Sender Question
From: "Tom Dillon" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 19:12:51 -0600
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
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Subject: Re: AppleScript Sender Question
From: "Beatrix Willius" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 16:40:36 +0200
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
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