Re: FLASH: <FLASH> problems rendering special characters

[Helen Triolo]

Cornelius,


Oops, sounds like urlencoding is not your issue at all.  Perhaps Paul

has provided what you need with his routine.  One other thing I thought

of is to make sure your single-character animating mc is wide and tall

enough to handle all characters -- I've seen cases where some characters

(like m's and w's) didn't display because the textfield wasn't wide

enough, so maybe that could be the case with special characters too.  If

you still haven't got it working and you want to post or send the fla, I

(or someone else on the list if you post it as a zip) can take a look.


Regards,

Helen 

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cjaeger wrote:

> 

> 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?

>


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