Re: FLASH: MBSubstring and Substring

[Matt Wobensmith]

Hi Dave -


You wrote:


>what is the difference

>between using the *Substring* expression and the *MBSubstring*  (Multibyte)

>expression???


Anything that refers to "Multibyte" or "doublebyte" is for languages that

support character sets other than our standard Western set... there are more

than 255 characters in a multibyte language.


Some multibyte languages include Japanese, Chinese and Korean, although

Japanese is the only one that Flash supports. Unless you are working with

Japanese fonts, and using strings of Japanese characters in your

ActionScript, you have no use for anything labeled "multibyte". 


And, just FYI, there wasn't enough in the Flash 4 manual about this... not

even an index entry. This should change in the future, if I have any say

about it! ;>)


Matt


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Matt Wobensmith

Macromedia Tech Support

Flash Team Lead


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