Unicode in file paths...

[Mark Schonewille]

Paul,

If you do this entire part in AppleScript, the problem solves itself.

set xFile to choose file of type "mov"

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On 5/7/2015 14:32, Paul Dupuis wrote:
> On 5/6/2015 7:08 PM, Paul Dupuis wrote:
>> answer file "Pick a movie:"
>> set the fileName of player 1 to shortFilePath(it)
>
> Mark & Peter,
>
> Thank you for the tips. The issue (in LC 6.7.4) appears not to be the
> manipulation of the file, but having some way of prompting the user to
> select a file with Unicode in the path.
>
> "answer file" - appears to return only native single byte text.
>
> So it would appear the only way to allow a user to select a Unicode
> based filespec is if I create my own "answer file" command/dialog that
> supports Unicode - which i am not sure whether that is possible or not.
>
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