Umlauts in flash 2

[firegambler]

hi folks,

i was trying to use an external text source for a dynamic textfield. as my customer is austrian (and therefore his text is german) i have to use umlauts in the text too (such as ä ü ö )
the problem is that i cannot use the standard html formatting for these signs (e.g. "&" followed by "ouml" for ö)since the & sign makes flash jump to the next variable. typing the umlaut in the usual way makes it replaced by a rectangle and the rest of the word is cut off.

anyone knows how to proceed?
thanks in advance regards

Firegambler

 

[wangbar]

You can either encode the text via escape()/unescape() which allows you to enter the characters as their URL encoded equivalents or save the text file as unicode (utf-8) and make sure that System.useCodepage is set to false.

 

[firegambler]

what i forgot to say is that i have to make sure that html formatting in the textfield works. don't know whether that makes a difference.

how exactly do i use escape and unescape?

regards

Firegambler

 

[oldnewbie]

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/url_encoding.htm

I'd even embed the font, just to be sure everybody gets to see it! Regards,

Don't worry, if my reply is wrong,
Bill Watson will clean it up for me!

 

[firegambler]

i think that's what i was looking for! thanks a lot!! regards

Firegambler