Greek from XML

programming flash
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I´m loading text via XML and when I trace it it looks fine in the output window. So the data is there. But, when I add it to a text field on the stage the text comes up as squares on the stage. Some of the words that only contain latin characters look fine.

I´ve tried to save the XML file in various ways with both Dreamweaver and Notepad, greek encoding, UTF-8, iso-8859-7, Unicode, Unicode big endian etc but to no success.

Also, when writing the greek text in a static textfield with the same font as the embedded one - it shows! So the characters are there in the font. But it all goes Pete Tong somewhere between the XML data and my textfield.

Please help! My deadline has already passed.

(I´ve seen some PHP solutions but PHP is not an option on the server we´re running)

Thanks in advance
Pierre

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UTF-8
http://dnadillo.dn.ua/fla/XML/img-xml.swf

3

So my XML looks something like:
<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?>
<tags>
<tag1>
<designtag>Σχεδίαση</designtag>
</tag1>
</tags>

it should work, right? I´ve tried that along with saving the .xml as UTF-8 in Notepad. No luck. I have even tried with System.useCodePage = true; but that didn´t do it either.

Thanks for your time!

4

not use this <?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?>

Open my xml file from
http://dnadillo.dn.ua/fla/XML/img-xml-img.zip
img_xml.xml
hi has UTF-8
Test him, and change him according to your desire

5

in your editor you also have to save the file with utf8 enconding

6

Thank you for your help Alex and Pier but it turns out it´s probably not an XML Encoding -problem.

Check this out: http://locomotiv.globalinn.se/greektest/
One field with static text that is looking fine. And the other with dynamic text is not looking very good. Here´s the code for the textfield:

tf.embedFonts = true;
tf.text = "Dynamic text: &#913;&#957;&#964;&#959;&#967;&#942;&#931;&#935;&#917;&#916;&#906;&#913;&#931;&#919;&#922;&#902;&#924;&#917;&#929;&#913;";

The text “Dynamic text: ΑντοχήΣΧΕΔΊΑΣΗΚΆΜΕΡΑ” is added to the text field and I´ve clicked Auto Fill in the embed options. So, the characters are there.

Could this be a codePage problem? I´ve tried useCodePage as both true and false and none works.

Please - I need more help!

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is the error consistent on all browsers, platforms,players?

Once I had the weirdest issue… but only in firefox. It was because wmode=transparent on firefox bugged the player…

8

Turned out to be a font export problem after all. GreekHelvetica just didn´t work in my dynamic textfield. Switched to Arial and it works. Took me three days and a font change. Christ!

But it´s still very weird that I could write the text statically and not dynamically. Not the most obvious place to start the error search.

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Thanks for your time!