The Applescript solution is an interesting idea; especially as Entourage already supplies the file name as a Unicode string and HFS disks store names in Unicode. If I have time, I will try to write something later tonight.
on 4/23/02 11:33 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/23/02 11:15 AM, "Eric Hildum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Known problems with Entourage v.X:
Dragging a Contact to a message or to the desktop will create a vCard with a file name of ?? ??.vcf if the contact’s name is not in English.
Non-English file names that display correctly in the attachments panel will be converted to question marks when saved to disk or dragged to the desktop.
Both problems will occur even if Entourage is set to the language of the name or filename with the Microsoft Language Register.
This is an application problem, not a Mac OS X problem.
Probably "non-Western European" character set, rather than "non-English" I imagine it works OK for French, German, Spanish, etc, doesn't it? But it's a problem all right. I think a workaround AppleScript could be made since both Entourage and the Finder understand Unicode. You could get the name of the message or attachment "as Unicode text" and save it to a file path on the desktop set to same. Even if the file system isn't yet up and running in Unicode (otherwise you'll have to set the path "as string" so that all the volumes and directories in the path are understood by the file system) you then tell the Finder to set the name of the resulting file to the Unicode name. The Finder does everything in Unicode now.
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Eric Hildum
