Comments on: Actionscript – Loading Acute and UTF-8 Characters from XML into Dynamic Text with Flash

By: Bobin

Bobin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:30:18 +0000

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By: Elias

Elias — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:16:05 +0000

Hi there!

Thanks for the solution, I just bought a template from the Flahoo site and couldn’t translate to spanish (we use a lot of special characters: á é í ó ú ñ, etc…) In this particular case, I saved the XML with an UTF-8 enconding, and also added the System.useCodepage = true; to the very first line of the main SWF file, despite the XML being parsed by external actionscript file.

By: Filipe Cunha

Filipe Cunha — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:36:12 +0000

Setting the useCodepage to true can lead to some other problems. Since flash will be using the user’s codepage, he will still see everything fine, but any and all forms he needs to fill or any other data that Flash Player needs to send anywhere else other than Flash Player itself, will be encoded with the user’s codepage.

So, for example, if u got a contact form on you flash, it’ll be sent with the user’s encoding, and therefore, can be truncated to you. (Just think of a japanese guy trying to send you an e-mail through it.)