[wataru]

This sounds like the stupidest problem I've ever encountered, but here it is.

I need to use osascript in a shell script of mine to enable ownership on a disk. That's done like so:

Code:
tell application "Finder" to set ignore privileges of disk "My iPod" to false

This works just fine, except when the disk name contains a fancy apostrophe, namely

’

which is U+2019 "RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK" according to UnicodeChecker. The bad news is that this apostrophe is in the default iPod name, such as "Jim’s iPod."

When called from the command line, I get an error like

Code:
29:83: execution error: Finder got an error: Can't set ignore privileges of disk "This guy’s iPod" to false. (-10006)

When run from within ScriptEditor it works just fine.

Is there any way I can get this to work from the command line? Is it an encoding issue?

[Mithras]

Well, if it's always the same name, you can just save the compiled script somewhere and run that with osascript.
Or maybe you can use this little python script to generate portable Applescript that encodes the string.

[wataru]

The name must be dynamic. It's discovered from the path of the iPod in question with

Code:
$(echo $DESTINATION | awk -F/ '{print $3}')

where $DESTINATION might be /Volumes/Jim’s iPod.

I'll look at that Python script, but I'd like to try to keep this project to as few languages as possible.

[Mithras]

other ideas:
* do the whole thing in applescript
* export the volume name to an environment variable and recover it with system attribute "DESTINATION"
* write the volume name to a file, and read it back in the script ( http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/u...plescript.html )

[wataru]

Originally Posted by Mithras

other ideas:
* do the whole thing in applescript
* export the volume name to an environment variable and recover it with system attribute "DESTINATION"
* write the volume name to a file, and read it back in the script ( http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/u...plescript.html )

Thanks for the suggestions.

My script is over 500 lines long. I don't want to redo it in AppleScript, partly because I don't know enough AppleScript to duplicate all of the functionality.

I tried exporting the environment variable, but I ran into the exact same encoding issue.

I also tried reading from a file, but got the same encoding issue when reading as ASCII text, and a different one when reading as Unicode text.

I'll keep trying stuff. Thanks guys.

Edit: Writing to a file worked after playing with the encoding some more. This whole problem strikes me as very stupid. Why doesn't the string get passed to AppleScript properly even after converting to UTF-16 while still in the command line?