Re: FLASH: <FLASH> problems rendering special characters

[cjaeger]

Dear Helen,


>> 

>> mc's. Everything works fine except... I have a German client and there are

>> those funny Umlaut thongs everywhere and FLASH 4.0a (Flash 5 player) doesn't

>> want to render them.

>> Any one know a work around or encountered similar problems?

> 

> It's a pain, but you have to put the URL codes for those letters into

> the text file


I am not getting my string from a text file. I simply putting the text in a

variable. The variable is then plucked apart using the Substring command one

by one. Each individual character is then placed in a duplicated mc

containing a single field one character long. I tried to url encode my text

variables eg. 'die sch�nsten B�der' (I hope the Umlauts made it to you)

the text mc then duplicates the animation mc and places the character 'd' in

the first duplicate, then i in the next duplicate and so on.

I changed the script so when it hit a '%' sign it would take the next three

characters as one viz. 'sch�nsten' written as 'sch%d6nsten' the text_mc

would grab '%d6' in one chunk and render it. Alas, the result is an empty

text field. 

I even tried a similar approach converting the string into ASCii code (using

the table on your website, then converting it all back to characters. To no

avail. I am still stuck. Perhaps you know of another way?


I would still like to go climbing,


I will gladly send you my script if this would help you help me :-)


Thanks for your response



Cornelius



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