Displaying foreign characters - best practices?

programming flash
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Hi Guys,

I’ve got a client that needs to display some icelandic characters in there flash application.

The application is updated by a cms using php - and the data is sent as a simple data string (as apposed to XML).

Here’s an example string: Sæglópur

Now this saves into the database fine, and outputs to the web browser fine with a heading of ‘text/plain’.

When loaded into flash the content doesnt display at all however - and when traced I get ‘?’ in diamonds where the foreign characters should be appearing.

Is the some list of best practices or anyone with some experience in tis that can help?

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you have to embed latin and latin extended formats into all the dynamic textfields

capitals
lowercase
fullstops etc

it bumps your file size up but enables different than english font.

3

yup done that.

if my foreign characters are hard coded into the flash this works great - but its breaks when they’re dynamically loaded :frowning:

Any clues?

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I’ve made an app which loads text in through XML and it works with French and the like so :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

I can only assume its due to it being PHP, maybe you have to turn it to a string() even though its suppose to be one shrugs

I was of the understand PHP can write XML

I’ll ask a guy I know.

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PHP definitely can write XML - but the app is to advanced to make a change as substantial as using XML instead of strings at this point.

I’m sure its some kind of character encoding issue but im just not sure :frowning:

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Set your external documents encoding to utf-8