Script/Automator action/CSS to change text encoding?

As an expat Israeli, I read an Isareli newspaper online every day. Most pages on their site <http://www.haaretz.co.il> display fine with the text encoding set to Default. Some, though, forget that Hebrew is written right-to-left, and insist on displaying everything backwards, which makes it a bit hard to read.
To get such a page to display correctly I need to change the text encoding to Hebrew (Windows). However, it gets a bit boring to go to the View menu, scroll down to Text Encoding, then scroll down again to Hebrew (Windows), especially when I have to do it several times a day.
So, I thought automating this procedure would be the way to go. Problem is I cannot find either Automator actions or Applescript Dictionary items that relate to text encoding.
Skating on thinner ice, I think a style sheet could help tell Safari to display a page with the right text encoding, but:
1. I have no idea how to write such a style sheet.
2. When I looked at the source HTML of a page that displays correctly, and one that doesn't, I find that both include the following tags:
charset=windows-1255 (inside a larger META tag), and
<META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-Language" CONTENT="he">
These are the tags that, I thought, would allow me to distinguish between a "good" page and a "bad" one. But if both contain the same tags...
Any ideas on how I can automate this text encoding switch?
TIA,
Gidi
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I agree with you that the authors are doing something
not exactly kosher. But if I will complain, I know
their knee-jerk response: Ahhh, you're using a
Mac...
I don't see how a windows browser could display it correctly either. Win-1255 has to be logical order, and they probably have some guys composing articles in visual order and then copy/pasting them into the Win-1255 pages without paying attention.

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All the best.

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Here you will run into a difficulty inherent in Illustrator's poor implementation of stroked text. You can apply a Stroke at the Character level and include that Appearance in a Character Style. But Illustrator always positions such strokes in front of the fill--something you almost never want, because it "chokes" the fills, wrecking the shape of the characters. The workaround is to Add New Stroke and position that below the Characters listing in the Appearance Palette. But script provides no access to added strokes or fills and Added Strokes cannot be applied at the character level.
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Anyway, you want a paying gig?
I do some freelance work as time permits and interest strikes, but I'm not cheap, and that's not why I frequent these forums.
Scripting your solution entirely in AI may very well be possible, but whoever does it will need to see the specific objects, styles, etc., involved to avoid unnecessary guessing and time-consuming round-tripping. Why don't you post an image and/or an AI file?
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Looking for an example of using Automator action in an Applescript

Does anyone have an example of how to use an Automator action in an Applescript? I want to use the Automator action that creates a note for an iPod and then sends it to the iPod inside an Applescript (I want to be able to loop through all of the text files in a folder). Any examples would be helpful. Thanks.

Hi Mike
You could save the workflow as an application and then write a simple script that tells the application to launch multiple times.
But you'll find it many times faster to do it the other way round, and run a looping AppleScript from a single Automator action.
(Your iPod must be set up in disk mode.)
set ipod_name to "Name of your iPod goes here" -- edit this line and put the name of your pod in inverted commas
tell application "Finder" to set ipod_ready to exists disk ipod_name
if ipod_ready then
set text_folder to (choose folder with prompt "Choose the folder containing notes for your iPod.")
set file_names to list folder text_folder without invisibles
repeat with file_name in file_names
set file_path to text_folder & file_name as string
if file type of (info for file_path) is "TEXT" then
tell application "Finder"
move file file_path to folder "Notes" of disk ipod_name
end tell
end if
else -- ipod not mounted
display dialog "Mount your iPod first!" buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon caution giving up after 5
end if
Copy and paste this into a Run AppleScript action, edit to supply the name of your own ipod, and see how it goes.
Hope this helps,
H

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