Unexpected gibberish

[rbygrave]

Sorry, can't get screen cap or clipboard to do this at all. My keyboard won't respond to shift-command-3 or shift-command-4, also the Grab service on the services menu has its options greyed out.

What I see is an alphabet soup of alpha/num/punct characters and foreign characters (accented chars, s-zetts, ae ligatures, Greek sigma &c) along with non-

Comments

[xv]

Oh ok, that's actually valid code. The things you quoted are four-character codes for applescript commmands. Um, apple has something somewhere that explains this. Usually it happens when the script is compiled against an earlier version of a targeted app that doesn't contain english equivalents of the codes specified.