Python code to get the typed text in a tab

Scripting
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In the case of certain Latin diacritics and also letters from the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, the “Font.currentText” line gets them written as descriptive names – see the attached image.

This is a problem if I want to do a change case script. How can I get the text as “normal” text, so the change case routines work for all alphabets?

Here’s the script I’m trying to run on a text like “ελληνικά АаБбВвГгДдЕ ȘșȚț”:

#MenuTitle: Change case

-- coding: utf-8 --

doc=“”"
Changes case of the selected text.
“”"

import GlyphsApp
import re

Font = Glyphs.font

currentText = Font.currentText
selectedLayers = Font.selectedLayers
Ucase = currentText.decode(‘utf-8’).upper()

Message(“Upper case”, Ucase)
Glyphs.currentDocument.windowController().activeEditViewController().graphicView().setDisplayString_(Ucase)

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For changing case of selected text, I use this: