Transcript version of this AppleScript

[RGould8 at aol.com]

I've got an Applescript below that converts a text string into a
format that IE's plist config file understands.   (I'm trying to
save a new URL into IE's default homepage prefs)

set s to "http://www.google.com/"
set s to (ASCII character (count s)) & s
do shell script "echo -n " & quoted form of s & " | openssl base64"

Can anyone tell me how this could be converted to work as a
Transcript solution?   The base64 encoding is easy - - - it's
the ASCII character count part that I'm not sure
how to convert into Transcript