I've been trying to mess with foreign characters and Flash but I can't get XML
to send these characters to Flash and have them print right. I've tried all
headers I can find for different encodings. Anyone know how to get around this

Thanks

French Characters [b]?,?,?....[/b]

this is what I'm current;y saying in XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<french>imper?mable</french>

I've also tried using &#130; instead of ?. All I get is a box character.

thanks

Remember to not only put in the right header but also make sure the file is
saved a s UTF-8; any texteditor like notepad should be able to do that. You
could also do it in dreamweaver by setting the default fileformat for new
xml-files to be UTF-8.

John

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Oh; one more thing; make sure the font u use to display the characters
actually contains outlines for those characters. You can bet your *ss that a
lot of freefonts will simply NOT contain outlines for those characters. So
check the characterset of the font u use. If it's a system font, this should
not be a problem though.

John
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what characters and what encoding have you try ?
I use it w/o problem , tho you might have characters that are not supported.
Can you provide details please .




Regards


urami_*

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thanks you 2, got it to work something funny though, I can use the character ? but not &#130; heh oh well

i have encountered a similar problem before.

it seems that Flash is not reliable when parsing XML text
blocks. a character-by-character dump using a for-loop
may reveal to you that certain characters may be mixed
up with 2-character sequences (or vice versa, i forgot
which). to work around this problem, you may want to use
a CDATA block to wrap around your text e.g.

<![CDATA[Mon père aime bien les cafés à Paris.]]

tell me if this works to your satisfaction.

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If you use UTF-16 encoding it will support all of your chars. Without trouble.
<? xml version="1.1" encoding="UTF-16">

just make sure you use an editor that is capable of saving in UTF-16. Notepad
is not able to do this, you can download XML-notepad, or I personally use
XMLSpy.

hth,

|:.The Flashster.:|

If you use UTF-16 encoding it will support all of your chars. Without trouble.
<? xml version="1.1" encoding="UTF-16">

just make sure you use an editor that is capable of saving in UTF-16. Notepad
is not able to do this, you can download XML-notepad, or I personally use
XMLSpy.

hth,

|:.The Flashster.:|