Foreign Characters

[QBA]

Hi

I have a flash file that is loading variables from an external .txt document into a Dynamic text field.

I'm having problems getting the Dynamic text field to display foreign characters. The characters displays fine on the text document but once they upload into flash they don't display properly or don't display at all.

In my dynamic text field I’m using Arial witch I know is capable to display all the foreign characters from the txt file. I tried using html font tags on the text file so it will be force to display Arial once loaded into Flash and didn't help either.

Any ideas what can I do to have the foreign characters display properly once being loaded into Flash MX?

Thanks

Alex

[farafiro]

attach this in the first frame

System.useCodePage = true

[littleRichard]

if you save the text file as a unicode file then you can just load it into flash normaly and everything will display properly.

setting "System.useCodePage = true" will cause the player to use the operating systems codepage which could cause certain charachters to display differently from one computer to the next.

unicode is the way to go.

[QBA]

Thanks guys,

littleRichard how can I save the txt file as unicode? is there a option when I go to save the txt file?

I saw it littleRichard should I choose unicode TM (UTF-16) or (UTF-8)? what is the diference bettween the two?

[littleRichard]

either one should work. you might also want to check out these links.

http://moock.org/asdg/technotes/againstUseCodePage/
http://moock.org/asdg/technotes/usingSpecialCharacters/

[QBA]

littleRichard I did what you said by saving the text files as undicode and now a least is diplaying some chatracters by not always the right ones is

[QBA]

I just tried what farafiro said and it works

littleRichard I will try to get what you said working since you think that the characters could display diferent from machine to machine