Cf. correspondence on the AlphaTcl-developers mailing list:
Joachim (19/12/2004):
In connection with the AS/statusbar crash I just reported,
there is another (independent) issue which is possibly a bug
somewhere:
Suppose you have an application called SoftWindows, where
the last char is an upperscript TM. Then if in Alpha you do
AppleScript execute -- {
tell application "SoftWindows" to activate
}
you get the 'please locate...' dialogue, and the name
of the application has been deformed into SoftWindows,Ѣ
(where those last three chars are a comma, an uppercase
n-tilde, and a cent-sign).
So there is some encoding problem, and I don't know if the
problem is mine, Alpha's, or Tclapplescript's.
Daniel:
definitely a bug in Tclapplescript, it should have been changed to
use macRoman explicitly during the OSX port.
Jon:
OK. I nominate Joachim to file it.
Joachim:
OK, thanks. And merry Christmas.