AppleScript Word-Break Rules

[peavine]

@Shane Stanley

Whether localization is needed is obviously going to depend on the source of the string, and my guess was that we were dealing with the output of a command-line utility, and therefore localization was possibly going to be counter-productive.

The string was output from a command-line utility, and I wondered if command-line utilities generally respect localization? In other words, would the string in question contain 49,33% or 49.33% in a France or German locale? In this particular case, the utility was not built-in with macOS but one I downloaded.

[Shane_Stanley]

@peavine

The string was output from a command-line utility, and I wondered if command-line utilities generally respect localization?

I suspect it varies, just like with apps. But there’s potentially an extra wrinkle in the form of environment variables.

[Yvan_Koenig]

@ Shane Stanley

I don’t remember seeing a CLI returning localized results.

Yvan KOENIG running High Sierra 10.13.6 in French (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 30 décembre 2019 09:40:58

[Shane_Stanley]

@Yvan Koenig

I don’t remember seeing a CLI returning localized results.

No?

set x to do shell script "date"
set y to do shell script "LANG=fr_FR date"

[Yvan_Koenig]

Thanks Shane.
I really forgot that.

Yvan KOENIG running High Sierra 10.13.6 in French (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 30 décembre 2019 14:31:26

[CK11]

@KniazidisR

-- Changing AppleScript Word-Break Rules

set aText to "This%is%a%test this is a test"
set modifiedText to my replaceText("%", "BREAK_SYMBOL", aText)
set theWords to words of modifiedText

(*
	...etc.
*)

Hm. An absurdly verbose handler that is called as many times as one possibly can, to decompose a string into a list using a repeat loop and the words property element to achieve precisely this:

set text item delimiters to space
text items of "This%is%a%test this is a test"

Sorry, but that’s just ridiculous.

[KniazidisR]

@CK

Hm. An absurdly verbose handler that is called as many times as one possibly can, to decompose a string into a list using a repeat loop and the words property element to achieve precisely this:

set text item delimiters to space
text items of "This%is%a%test this is a test"

Sorry, but that’s just ridiculous.

Okay. I will remove it. I hope the kondrashka has not happened to you yet. If I laughed at the mistakes of others on this site, my navel has long been unleashed…