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Special Charecters In A Smart Clip Custom Interface



Hi:

I built a smat clip custom interface for a flash file of mine.

The problem is, it does not pass variables with special characters correctly.

I've tried HTML and URL encoding and even so it shows the special characters in a wrong way.

Is there any way out?

Thanks,

Will



FlashKit > Flash Help > Flash ActionScript
Posted on: 06-02-2002, 10:02 AM


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