Changing encoding of autocompleted ä

[krokofant]

I hit backspace after I wrote this post the last time and I lost all i wrote...

 

 

Test #1 (From Term​inal)

osascript -l JavaScript -e "console.log(escape('ä'))"

Notice that the ä is encoded as %E4.

 

Test #2

Create a keyword trigger with a parameter. Let's call this atest.

Create an action with osascript (JS) with the following code

console.log(escape("{query}"));

Connect the trigger and action.

Watch the debug console for output.

Notice that the ä is encoded as a%u0308.

 

 

Problem scenario

I'm using this NodeJS workflow as a base https://github.com/giangvo/alfred-workflow-nodejs/

I've created an issue about this over there too https://github.com/giangvo/alfred-workflow-nodejs/issues/6

The workflow supports autocomplete with a menusystem.

1. I'm getting external menu entries which contains the letter ä
2. I'm autocompleting a menu entry which places the (%E4 based ä in the search thingy)
3. I'm sending this to an action which contains the code below

4. function getItemData(itemTitle) {
     var wfData = Storage.get("wfData");
     return wfData ? wfData[itemTitle] : undefined;
   }

5. This tries to access data where the menu entry title is the key. Originally the key is ä / %E4 which it is in wfData but the autocompleted title is ä / a%u0308 which makes the key not match although they at first sight look the same.

Any tip on how to go about this?

 

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[Andrew]

Any tip on how to go about this?

 

I suspect this is the issue you are seeing:

 

http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/2015-encoding-issue/

 

You'll need to re-normalise the UTF-8, which you may be able to do in osascript / JavaScript:

 

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/normalize

 

If not, look at the 4th post down, I've shared a little shell utility which can renormalise UTF-8 on the command line after NSTask has been run.

 

Cheers,

Andrew

[krokofant]

I suspect this is the issue you are seeing:

 

http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/2015-encoding-issue/

 

You'll need to re-normalise the UTF-8, which you may be able to do in osascript / JavaScript:

 

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/normalize

 

If not, look at the 4th post down, I've shared a little shell utility which can renormalise UTF-8 on the command line after NSTask has been run.

 

Cheers,

Andrew

       

Well this enlightened my day. Thanks for the help and for the awesome app.

 

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