Some Elementary Questions About «class ktxt»

[hansolo625]

Hello scripting experts, self-taught scripter here with some elementary questions about «class ktxt»

I recently came across «class ktxt» and did a bit of research. From what I can find I’ve only seen one application:

set the clipboard to «class ktxt» of ((the clipboard as text) as record)

One person from a forum explained it very thoroughly

How it works: The as text portion grabs the stylized text from whatever other junk may be surrounding it (which can be significant). As record splits out the style and text portions, and »class ktxt» grabs the plain text portion of that.

Since that thread is far too dated (2004), I decide to turn my questions here.

First, how do you even type “«” and “»”? Because it’s certainly not just doubling “<” or “>” lol

Second, outside for the example given above, are there other use of it?

Finally, just out of curiosity, no need to really answer it. I can’t even seem to find «class ktxt» on Apple’s official scripting documents. Why is it written in such strange format with the <</>> and how come this is the only thing written with this format?

Thank you all for your time!

[Shane_Stanley]

«class ktxt» is essentially obsolete – it was used in the days before Unicode support was ubiquitous.

All classes appear using « and » in raw form, and how you enter those characters depends on your keyboard/language. On a standard US keyboard using English they are option-| and option-shift-|.

[hansolo625]

@Shane Stanley

«class ktxt» is essentially obsolete – it was used in the days before Unicode support was ubiquitous.

WOW, thanks for that. See this is something I’ll never find by Googling on my own. I’m glad there are so many experts online. Thank you!