encoding woes

Joachim Kock — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:17:51 -0000

Cf. correspondence on the AlphaTcl-developers mailing list:

Joachim (19/12/2004):

In connection with the AS/statusbar crash I just reported,
there is another (independent) issue which is possibly a bug
somewhere:

Suppose you have an application called SoftWindows, where
the last char is an upperscript TM. Then if in Alpha you do

AppleScript execute -- {
tell application "SoftWindows" to activate
}

you get the 'please locate...' dialogue, and the name
of the application has been deformed into SoftWindows,Ń˘
(where those last three chars are a comma, an uppercase
n-tilde, and a cent-sign).

So there is some encoding problem, and I don't know if the
problem is mine, Alpha's, or Tclapplescript's.

Daniel:

definitely a bug in Tclapplescript, it should have been changed to
use macRoman explicitly during the OSX port.

Jon:

OK. I nominate Joachim to file it.

Joachim:

OK, thanks. And merry Christmas.

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