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This doesn't work

myText = "\\u" + "0254";
app.selection[0].contents = myText;

This works...

myText = "app.selection[0].contents = \"\\u" + "0254\"";
app.doScript(myText);

... but it's pretty bloody. Passing a text reference into a doScript is extremely messy, so this was made a lot easier by using the current selection. Reminiscent of using PageMaker's scripting language.

I was so sure this would work...

app.selection[0].contents = "\r";
myText = eval("\\u" + "0254");
app.selection[0].contents = myText;

...but eval is overly aggressive and tries to evaluate the resultant unicode character.

But this doesn't go far enough; you get the same as the first try:

myText = ("\\u" + "0254").toString();
app.selection[0].contents = myText;

I thought I was getting somewhere with this:

myText = eval(new String("\\u" + "0254"));
app.selection[0].contents = myText;

Now I'm starting to swear

myText = eval(new String("\\u" + "0254"));
app.selection[0].contents = myText.toString();

I thought maybe I was using eval in the wrong place, but no.

myText = "\\u" + "0254";
app.selection[0].contents = eval(myText);

This didn't work, either. There aren't many combinations left:

myText = eval(new String("\\u" + "0254"));
app.selection[0].contents = eval(myText);

Another failure:

myText = eval(new String("\\u" + "0254"));
app.selection[0].contents = eval((myText).toString());

and this doesn't work. It insists on trying to treat the result of the eval as the name of a variable.

myText = eval(new String("\\u" + "0254"));
app.selection[0].contents = "" + eval((myText).toString());

According to the JavaScript reference at DevEdge, String(myText) should return the same as myText.toString(), and this try seems to bear this out:

myText = eval(new String("\\u" + "0254"));
app.selection[0].contents = String(myText);

But things are different with this try...

myText = eval(new String("\\u" + "0254"));
app.selection[0].contents = String(eval(myText));

... this is the first time that the attempt to use eval didn't result in an error. Still got the wrong result though.

myText = eval(new String("\\u" + "0254"));
app.selection[0].contents = String("" + eval(myText));

I give up!

At least I found one solution, albeit inelegant.

Dave