Yesterday I Tweeted that AppleScript seemed to be no longer working for me after I installed Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

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More fun and games with Applescript and unicode…

I have finally solved the problem of working with Unicode in an Applescript list. I wouldn’t claim the solution is elegant, but it works!

This is, hopefully, the last bit in the puzzle before the release of some new software. Now that this problem has been solved there is some last minute beta testing to do, and if that all goes well, the software should be released early next week.

Once that is done it is back to iCalMaker and chasing a couple of very minor bugs reported last week.

Using Applescript in a Cocoa application

Since version 10.2 it has been possible to incorporate Applescripts as part of an application. The fun really starts when you try to allow for international text, that is, Unicode text. This seems to be a real weakness in Applescript. Unicode text cannot be displayed directly in the editor, although it will be displayed in ‘Event Log History’ and this makes life difficult when testing new scripts, particularly if they contain Unicode!