Exploration Through Example

Example-driven development, Agile testing, context-driven testing, Agile programming, Ruby, and other things of interest to Brian Marick

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Tue, 17 Jan 2006

Hack for unicode to the pasteboard

See, just explaining the problem and sleeping on it makes the solution wave to attract your attention:

One way to put unicode on the Mac OS X pasteboard is to use FUJIMOTO Hisakuni's rubyaeosa to execute Applescript.

require 'osx/aeosa' applescript="    set the clipboard to \xc7data utf8CEA3CEA6\xc8 " OSX.do_osascript(applescript)

(The hex characters are Mac-Roman "chevrons" that vaguely look like ‹‹ and ››. Applescript doesn't use 7-bit ASCII. The glop after "utf8" is sigma and phi in the Greek alphabet.)

I could dig further into rubyaeosa to find a Ruby message send equivalent to "set the clipboard", but I maybe think that's a bad idea. This is an example for Scripting for Testers, and I think that the message of getting the job done with bailing wire and twine and moving on is a good one.

Now on to Windows...

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