Sending Unicode to "do AppleScript"

Eggplant Functional
1

Basic question:
How can I pass Unicode characters to an AppleScript command called by SenseTalk?

Example:


set txtUnicode to "ヘルプ"
set txtScript to merge of {{
return "[[ txtUnicode ]]"
  }}
set result to doAppleScript(txtScript)
put result

It returns a munged version of the text:

?w???v

Any ideas how to get this to work?
It is seriously causing some major blocking issues in my automation.

Thanks!

Pv

2

I’m not sure of the specifics of your needs, however I have posted a UNICODE conversion routine in SenseTalk to the forums:

http://www.redstonesoftware.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=567&highlight=unicode

If you find some other means please post it in the Redstone Software User Forums for us all to benefit.

3

AppleScript’s support for Unicode seems to be somewhat limited. Here’s one approach that seems to work, passing the Unicode text via a file:

set txtUnicode to "???"
put txtUnicode into file "/tmp/UnicodeToAppleScript"

set txtScript to merge of {{
set f to a reference to posix file "/tmp/UnicodeToAppleScript"
open for access f
set s to read f as ?class utf8?
close access f
display dialog s
return s
}}

set result to doAppleScript(txtScript)
put result

Hopefully that will work for you. If not, there may be other options we can explore.