I've posted a library of AppleScript routines for working with Spaces that may be of interest:

http://bbs.applescript.net/viewtopic.php?id=23453

Jon

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The various functions look interesting. However, I would change the last function to use "tr" instead of perl:

on make_lowercase(the_string)
   return do shell script "echo " & quoted form of the_string & " | /usr/bin/tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'"
end make_lowercase

In the original script, you assume the character set locale to work with utf-8. Although utf-8 is more-or-less universal, it does have some problems with accented characters in non-English languages. The "tr" program respects current locale settings, which is more friendly to non-English character sets.

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This is what I get in my testing:

{make_lowercase("JØnathan"), make_lowercase_alt("JØnathan")}
-->{"jønathan", "jØnathan"}

on make_lowercase(the_string)
	return do shell script "echo " & quoted form of the_string & " | /usr/bin/perl -pe 'use encoding utf8; s/(\\w)/\\L$1/gi'"
end make_lowercase


on make_lowercase_alt(the_string)
	return do shell script "echo " & quoted form of the_string & " | /usr/bin/tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'"
end make_lowercase_alt

Jon

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