Re: 10.5 change to unicode text causes AppleWorks problems
by John Rethorst <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Dec 18, 2007 at 07:07 PM
In article <fk9b5m$log$1$8300dec7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Simon Slavin <slavins.delete.these.four.words@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> . My theory is this: the text "PNG [QT]", which used to be 8-bit text,
is
> now unicode text.
I forgot where I got this, but it coerces unicode text on the clipboard to
plain
text:
try
set clipText to the clipboard
set {text:clipText} to (clipText as text)
set the clipboard to clipText
beep
on error
display dialog "I canąt convert current contents of the clipboard to
text."
buttons ¬
{"OK"} default button 1 with icon stop
end try
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John Rethorst
jrethorst at post dot com
