Word 2008 Unicode support

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#1

Hi,

Been beating my brains trying to script Word 2008 with Unicode. Inside a tell application "Microsoft Word’ block it doesn’t seem to understand either the ‘id’ or ‘character id’. (error is ‘Can’t get id of xx’. I tried putting the code in a separate tell me function, but the script barks “Microsoft Word got an error: active document doesn’t understand the getCode message.”

Am I realizing that Word 2008 doesn’t support unicode for Applescript? Any workarounds? I need to get the unicode codepoints for evaluation and write out characters with ‘character id’.

Thx for any insight. Stumped in Montanaland

Fred

#2

Here’s a short example. The Tell Me works, but the Tell Word doesn’t. Thoughts?

– This works
tell me
set myVal to “A”
getCode(“A”)
end tell

– This doesn’t
tell application “Microsoft Word”
activate
set myVal to “A”
getCode(“A”)
end tell

on getCode(myVal)
tell me
return id of myVal as integer
end tell
end getCode

#3

Wnen calling method from inside a tell block the MY keyword should be used

tell application "Microsoft Word"
	activate
	set myVal to "A"
	my getCode("A") -- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
end tell

on getCode(myVal)
	return id of myVal as integer
end getCode
#4

Thanks for the hint…it worked. I’m still slugging through the basics of Applescript after a long hiatus.

Any idea how to use get the id inside the Tell Word block? I saw a few other posts (not Word) where people mentioned they have to use a function outside a tell application block to get the id.

Thx again,

#5

You might use ASCII character

tell application "Microsoft Word"
	ASCII character 65
end tell