Dave,
I think all of these character set / UTF8 / shortened file path
threads may be leading you on a wild goose chase. Certain characters
must be escaped in XML, and ampersand is one of them. I believe you
just need to unescape them.
Check this page: http://www.asciitable.com/
& is just an HTML/XML encoded entity for the ampersand.
This is untested, but you may be able to just do this:
set the htmlText of fld "hiddenField" to tFileName
put fld "hiddenField" into tFileName
The field should handle the HTML entities for you.
HTH,
Brian
Hi,
The path is coming out of the iTunes XML file. It's not just this
path, it's a load of them, for instance there are a lot of
instances that wherever there is an ampersand it is followed by
#38; There are files that have funny accents that cause the problem
too, If I read back the same track using AppleScript the weird
characters are not there.
I think that the tracks where this occurs were imported from a PC.
Thanks a lot
All the Best
Dave
On 1 Nov 2007, at 19:22, Ian Wood wrote:
It looks like the folder name has been abbreviated at some stage
by an OS that didn't understand file/folder names that long.
Where *exactly* is the filepath coming from?
Ian
On 1 Nov 2007, at 18:01, Dave wrote:
However I now have a another weird problem, I have a field that
represents a file path, in this case the path is:
/Users/Dave/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Blank & Jones/Addicted
To Trance (Disc 1)/11 DJs, Fans And Freaks.mp3
However a "if there is a file" fails on this path. When I look I
can't see the & in the file name. I'm guessing it's something
to do with UTF16 vs UTF8 or something, but I'm not sure how to
resolve it. The database I am writing is set to UTF8 which AFAIK
is the only option for SQLite.
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