Tim Mansour wrote:
Perhaps we can hope that AppleScript 2.0 includes unicode encoding?
Indeed! The inability of AppleScript to really handle unicode is one of its most annoying aspects.
And as for emails ... I can't find any way of changing Mail's encoding. Any suggestions?
Ah, Allan explained that Mail will just pick whichever encoding results in the smallest email, so apparently including ≠ will result in a Mac Roman encoding, because that saves 1 byte over the utf-8 encoded version. I think this sounds overly complex and a bit silly (at least for languages based on latin characters), but there it is. It was just surprising to me, as I hadn't seen a Mac Roman encoded email in years (or at least not noticed it). So I guess there's nothing you can do.
-Jacob