Greetings. These really are my first AppleScripting steps, hence help would be appreciated.
The task: convert ID3 tag data on a selection of songs in iTunes from a legacy (assumed CP-866, i.e. Russian MS-DOS) charset to Unicode. The first attempt was to go via “do shell command” and call up iconv(1):
tell application "iTunes"
set songList to selection
repeat with song in songList
set tSongName to name of song as string
set uSongName to do shell script "echo '" & tSongName & "'|iconv -f cp866 -t utf8" as «class utf8»
display dialog uSongName
end repeat
end tell
This kinda-sorta works, but I do get a lot of garbage characters like:
“├З├и├м├а”
instead of just
“Зима”
Gets worse if a string is longer.
The next attempt was to employ a custom-built character map:
tell application "iTunes"
set songList to selection
repeat with song in songList
set tSongName to name of song as string
set uSongName to degarbled(tSongName) as Unicode text
display dialog uSongName
end repeat
end tell
set testStr to degarbled("Çèìà ÃåçÃà çâà ÃèÿÃîäî") as Unicode text
display dialog testStr
on degarbled(str)
script o
-- garbled up cyrillics are coming up as these "extended latin" chars
property g : {192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 177, 184}
-- the real thing is here
property c : {1040, 1041, 1042, 1043, 1044, 1045, 1046, 1047, 1048, 1049, 1050, 1051, 1052, 1053, 1054, 1055, 1056, 1057, 1058, 1059, 1060, 1061, 1062, 1063, 1064, 1065, 1066, 1067, 1068, 1069, 1070, 1071, 1072, 1073, 1074, 1075, 1076, 1077, 1078, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086, 1087, 1088, 1089, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098, 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1025, 1105}
-- `JO' is always at the end (not after `JE')
property t : {}
end script
repeat with i from 1 to length of str
set charCode to ASCII number of (character i of str)
if charCode ≠184 or charCode ≠177 then
set o's t's end to item (charCode - 191) of o's g
else
-- special treatment for `JOs'
if charCode = 177 then set o's t's end to 1025
if charCode = 184 then set o's t's end to 1105
end if
end repeat
set outStr to "" as Unicode text
repeat with i from 1 to length of o's t
set outStr to outStr & (unicode character of item i of o's t)
end repeat
"" & outStr
end degarbled
And this breaks with “unicode character of…” I realise there does not seem to be a conversion like that, but is there any way to build up a Unicode string out of character codes?
Model: PowerBook G4, iMac G5, MacBook
AppleScript: 1.10.7
Browser: Safari 419.3
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.4)
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