At 2:00 pm -0700 5/9/02, Deborah Goldsmith wrote:
>On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 08:32 AM, Doug Ewell wrote:
>>Does everyone (Apple included) agree that the kahak‰ç is U+0304 COMBINING
>>MACRON and the ªokina is U+02BB MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA?
>>
>Our Hawaiian keyboard generates precomposed vowels with macron, not
>a combining macron. But yes, the kahak‰ç is a macron. And ªokina is
>U+02BB.
>
>The following was typed with the Hawaiian keyboard if anyone is curious:
>
>ŸÅŸìŸ´‰ç‰´ŸÄŸíŸ‰å‰ ª
Very nice! If any Eudora user wants to make any sense of Deborah's
message, they can run the script below, which requires the TEC Osax
to be in ScriptingAdditions. This script will open any incoming
UTF-8 encoded message as a TextEdit file displaying the Unicode
glyphs.
Is there any news yet of that tech note on keyboards? I've knocked
together a polytonic Greek keyboard using the old technology but I'm
keen to get working on the xml version and it would save me a lot of
time if there was some guidance available regarding all the different
actions etc.
JD
tell application "Eudora"
try
set cantDo to get outgoing of front message
on error noMessage
display dialog "No message"
end try
if cantDo then
display dialog "
No incoming message to convert." with icon ¬
0 buttons ¬
{"OK"} default button ¬
"OK" giving up after 3
return
end if
set show all headers of front message to false
set s to get field "" of front message
end tell
set s to TECConvertText s fromCode "UTF-8" toCode "UNICODE-2-0"
set f to "" & (path to temporary items) & "Eudora Message"
open for access file f with write permission
set eof file f to 0
write (ASCII character 254) & (ASCII character 255) to file f
write s to file f
close access file f
tell application "Finder"
open file f using application file id "com.apple.textedit"
end tell
tell application "TextEdit" to activate
