do shell script "LANG=en_US.UTF-8 echo " & quoted form of output_string & " | /usr/bin/textutil -inputencoding utf-8 -stdin -stdout -format html -convert rtf | sed 's/fcharset0 Times-Roman/fcharset0 Arial/' | pbcopy -Prefer rtf" -- convert the hyperlinks to rtf using textutil, change the font to Arial using sed (setting the font using textutil didn't work for me), and copy rtf to clipboard