Flash :: "undefined" - If XML Attribute Contains German Special Chars (Ã¼ÃµÃ¶Ã¤)

Special Chars In Xml Object
Hi

When reading out a XML file into a string and output to a textfield i experienced, that special characters like <ÅÄåäÖö> but also quite common ones like <'> are not read out and displayed wrong. This is not due to strings in Flash. because writing a string with special chars to a textfield does work.

So is there a way/workaround etc to display these special chars correctly without checking for and converting each one by one with the representative ASCII code. Does anyone have an idea on that problem ?

Additionally I am sorry, i posted a similar question a few days ago. But as it went along with a bunch of other questions, maybe just some of you had a look on it.Like always thx for your comments in advance.
Great board !, Jakob

Special Chars And .as #include
This is a weird thing, I'm including some external code using #include and in one of these I have the language setup for buttons labels, etc. Well, from the external .as the special chars doesn't work but if I put the code inside the Flash IDE all work properly. For now I solve this using this piece of code inside the Flash IDE.

thanks in advance

Load Special Chars Like ăîşţâ From XML ? Can It Be Done ?
My problem (and I posted previous)... i still can't find the solution:

I have an XML file that contains a set of special (romanian) characters like ă, î, ş, ţ, â. The problem is with Flash: it can't display corectly the XML.

???? WHY ????

The source of the Flash is:

Code:
var char = new XML();
char.ignoreWhite = true;
char.onLoad = function() {
trace("It is done. the XML is: "+char.toString());
};
char.load("specialChars.xml");
and the content of the "specialChars.xml" (I did not wrapped this in code tags because it's destroing my characters):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-2"?>
<test>
<characters>aîşţĂÎŞŢâÂ</characters>
</test>

(you must save this part with a text editor that can save special characters - not notepad)

Textarea And Special Chars
Hi, does anyone know how to get special characters to work with the textarea component in flash MX?

I have tried & with no success.

Edit: HTML is set to true in the textarea component.

Thanks in advance.

Dirk

Not Able To Solve Special Chars Problem
Hi there

I have walked through several tutorials, foruns, sample codes, and tried any single combination I could think of. Even got a php function to convert a string into unicode and got nowhere.

Strangest thing is that on the same site I have another swf with a similar code (used copy paste) and with a php file to retrieve data from mysql (used copy paste and chaged only the sql parameters) and that one actually works...

Enclosed I attach my fla (the one that doesn't works).

NOTE: In the movie, where it says (voltar), that means go back :-)

Thank you. I'm getting very very frustated.

How To Embed Trademark And Other Special Chars
I'm loading some XML into a dynamic text field and I need to be able to display a few special characters like the trademark symbol and em dash:

Code:
<answer>Apple™ Records</answer>
Naturally the textfield is created programmatically and I'm embeddeding shared Arial fonts from the Library.

What's the method for displaying these special characters in AS 3?

Displaying Html Special Chars
hello, I need help. I'm trying to display htmltext from xml file in my dynamic text field.
I used:
dynamic_txt.htmltext=textFromXML;
I embedded the fonts Latin 1, Latin Extended A, because I want to display characters like "á", "é", ...
" " is space and it displays correctly, but "á" which is "á" displayes "á" so that does not work.

Any help appreciated

Special Chars Do Not Display At XML Import
Hi there. Here is the situation: I am importing external data (only text) from a XML file, but when I type a "%" (percentage char) in XML it does NOT display in the SWF... why ?? What is the best practice to achieve this ?

Thanks in advance,

Special Chars & Xml Send Method
I'm sending an xml file from flash to php, so php can save it to the servers filesystem.
It works great, except when there's a node with a special char like a quote in it.

My actionscript code is like this:

Code:
xmlExport.xmlDecl = "xml=";
xmlExport.sendAndLoad("xmlexport.php", xmlExportStatus);
And my php code is like this:

PHP Code:

fwrite($handle, stripslashes(urldecode($_POST['xml'])));

Both somewhat simplified, but this is what matters I think.
I'm not sure about the urldecode part, but I've got this problem always, no matter if I use it or not.

I've traced the xml object, and I see that the quote is converted to ' then. That's great, but when php writes it, it stops there, so I end with only half of an xml file.

HTML Special Chars In TextField
I have problems with displaying HTML special chars into a TextField. I am speaking about the & " < stuff.
Things like

Code:
var tf:TextField = new TextField();
tf.htmlText = myText;
don't work.
I saw some examples in AS2 ( ) and flex( http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/02/using-special-characters-in-your-flex-applications/ ) but nothing in AS3.
Thanks in advance

EDIT: Sorry, my BIG mistake. Didn't tested enough initially. So tf.htmlText = '& " <' works just fine but it seems that entity names work only only for a few characters. For example for the character © using ft.htmlText = '©'; doesn't work but using its entity number: ft.htmlText = '& #174;'; works just fine.
Did i omit something (again) ? Isn't there a simple and/or clever way to support all entity names ?
For those who need, here is the w3schools HTML 4.01 Entities References page.

Html Special Chars Only On Some Computers?
I have a flash site made with MX 2004 that reads the text for the text fields dynamically, the fields are set to html and the characters selected are Uppercase, Lowercase, Numerals, Puntuation, Basic Latin plus the letters ñ, í, ó, é which are the only special chacters used, the dynamic text fields use & #243; for ó and & #241; for the ñ "without the spaces". On my computers at home "Both PC Windows XP and Mac OSX" the text reads as it should be but I had a call from someone in Spain who has 2 PCs running Windows Mellenium and they say the letters do not show, they just seem to be left out, anyone any ideas as to what the problem might be here?

Problem Importing Special Chars
im trying to get a text variable from a php file using the sendAndLoad function in flash.

the php file returns foo=bar and then flash shows bar in
a textfield.

the textfield is a dynamic textfield and i have included all font outlines.

normal words work fine but special chars are giving a problem. "continuiteit" is shown the same in flash but "continuÃ¯teit" gets turned into "continuit" for some reason.

the php file does return the string properly. if i open the php file it shows info=continuÃ¯teit

any help with this is much apreciated.

thanks,
Thomas

I learned a bit yesterday, today i learned a lot, imagine what i'll learn tomorrow!

Embed Fonts Problem - Special Chars
Hi,

i`ve got a problem, a can`t find a solution to embed Slovak characters with actionscript. A want to display text what contains variable text_to_display. The text displays, but the Slovak characers don`t. I`ve tried with '.embeddedcharacters' param but , it`s dosn`t work to.

Thanks in advace for your help,

Andriska80

Attach Code

text_to_display = "Å¡tandardnÃ© izolaÄnÃ© dvojsklo";
_root.createTextField("text_field",_root.getNextHighestDepth(),0,0,236,20);

var my_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
my_fmt.color = 0x999999;
my_fmt.font = "my_font"; //exported in library fontFace:Tahoma, size:11px
my_fmt.align = "center";

_root.text_field.multiline = true;
_root.text_field.wordWrap = true;
_root.text_field.textType = "dynamic";
_root.text_field.autoSize = true;
_root.text_field.selectable = false;
_root.text_field.text = text_to_display;
_root.text_field.embedFonts = true;
_root.text_field.embeddedcharacters = "Å¡ÄÃ©Ä¾Å¡ÄÅ¥Å¾Ã½Ã¡";
_root.text_field.embedRanges = "1|2|3|4";
_root.text_field.setTextFormat(my_fmt);

Playing Ext. FLV When Projector Path Has Special Chars (win)
i have problems with a movie that is published as flash8-projector under windows xp.

it shall play a local FLV-file using NetStream.play().

it works ONLY, when the path of the projector doesn't contain a special char like "Ã¶" wich is inacceptable here in germany.

an example can be downloaded at www.dinkler.de/test.zip

this occurs ONLY with the flash8-projector under windows. mac works fine, playing the swf-file using browser-plugin, movie-test or SAFlashPlayer works also.

Edited: 06/13/2007 at 04:31:17 AM by timuckel

Problem To Display Special French Chars
Hi all,
yesterday I put online my very first web site, mainly based on ideas found through this site.

http://romut.free.fr

And as you may know, us, French people, use all the time some special chars like "èéàç€ùëïü....".

Check the "news" page of my site, you will see there is none of our so loved special chars...And I don't know why...so this thread.

The "news" control is based on :
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/multiple_dynamictext.htm

The control is DynamicText and I embbed :
Uppercase
Lowercase
Numerals
Punctuation
Basic Latin
Latin I

So why can't I display my "è..." ?

Thanks for your help

Loading Dynamic Text, MX Won't Recognize Special Chars?
Hi Flashers,

I'm doing a Flash MC which loads some dynamic text from a .txt source file. The thing is that if the .txt file, contains special characters like Spanish-French é è á ñ etc, Flash MX does not recognize them when exporting or testing the movie, and instead it displays a lil' square or a missing letter.
That did not happen with Flash 5, why is that so? Is there any option I'm missing to avoid it? Haven't been able to find it. Has anybody experienced something similar??

Thank you,
Manare

Flash Mail Form - Special Chars Messed Up
cheerio folks,

set up a mail form in flash which sends the contents over variables to a php file. the latter then sends the email.

however, some specials chars like ä,ö and ü and so on won't display correctly when i retrieve the mail.
code:
sendVars = new LoadVars();
// create the variables to send
sendVars.namevar = _parent.namef;
sendVars.emailvar = _parent.emailf;
sendVars.commentvar = _parent.commentf;
receiveVars = new LoadVars();
receiveVars.onLoad = function() {
trace(this.resultvar);
_root.ergeb = this.resultvar;
_parent.gotoAndStop(2);
};
sendVars.sendAndLoad("http://www.likwit.biz/ver1/kontakt.php", receiveVars, "POST");

blah, this is for the AS ... guess you can see how i send the vars.

php script is a simple mailto thingie.
for example "hähühö" will be delivered as "hÃ¤hÃ¼hÃ¶" ...
tried some things like rawurlencode and so on, no success at all.

any ideas?

Sending From Flash To PHP... Doesn't Send Special Chars... ?
Hello everyone... I even reviewed my PHP file and it contains the tag with the "UTF-8" ... however, every time I send a text from Flash to PHP and then a mail... it does not display the special spanish chars like accents or "ñ", instead of it it displays any other no-sense stuff.... I will really appreaciate your help here,

Thanks in advance !

Urlloader Request Data, How To Decode Special Chars?
Say the string my post returned was broken down like this

Code:
id=1&yvar=0&xvar=0&updatetime=0000%2D00%2D00%2000%3A00%3A00&name=test
I can do loader.data.updatetime or whatever other variables and it will return the decoded string. I was wondering how I could loop through and spit all this data into an array instead of typing it out one by one.

Embedding Special Chars Into Dynamic Text Fields
I am trying to get some french accent Characters to render in my dynamic text field. I have tried everything I can think of. Including altering the UnicodeTable.xml file.

I followed the Flash's live docs instructions and still no luck.

Heres the XML I added to the bottom of the UnicodeTable.xml file.
Code:
<glyphRange name="french accents" id="100" >
<range min="0x00E0" max ="0x00E0" />
<range min="0x00E7" max ="0x00E7" />
<range min="0x00E9" max ="0x00E9" />
<range min="0x00F4" max ="0x00F4" />
</glyphRange>

After I re-open flash the new char set is in the embed box as it should be. But even when I embedd this new set no results. The place where the chars should be come up in the text field is completely blank. Same results no matter which typeface I choose too. Also I have tried the embed additional Chars box in the embedded window and it doesnt work either.

I used this converter to get the unicode for the characters I need to embed:
http://people.w3.org/rishida/script.../conversion.php

I'm stumped. Any thoughts?

Thanks

German "umlaute" And Special Characters
i have the problem, that mx does kill the german characters in my form as they are getting postetd to a php script oin a server. i tried it with flash5 - works fine! but: my flash-movie uses components and has to be flash mx!

any solution?

i appreciate any ideas!

greetings from martin/germany

XML Attribute Showing Up As 'undefined'.
Hey all,

I am trying to access a file via XML in Flash 8, but I cannot even get it to show up in my output window. Below is the XML and the Flash code. Everytime I get an 'undefined' in the output window. I want the text 'audio1.wav' to display in the output window.

ACTIONSCRIPT BELOW
var templateXML:XML = new XML();
templateXML.ignoreWhite = true;
templateXML.load("template.xml");

templateXML.onLoad = function(p_success:Boolean):Void{
if(p_success){
trace("::XML LOADING SUCCESSFUL::");
trace(this.firstChild.childNodes[0].nextSibling.firstChild.firstChild.attributes.path );

XML BELOW

<assets>
<audios>
<audio path="audio/audio1.wav"/>
<audio path="audio/audio2.wav"/>
<audio path="audio/audio3.wav"/>
<audio path="audio/audio4.wav"/>
<audio path="audio/audio5.wav"/>
<audio path="audio/audio6.wav"/>
<audio path="audio/audio7.wav"/>
<audio path="audio/audio8.wav"/>
<audio path="audio/audio9.wav"/>
<audio path="audio/audio10.wav"/>
<audio path="audio/audio11.wav"/>
<audio path="audio/audio12.wav"/>
<audio path="audio/audio13.wav"/>
<audio path="audio/audio14.wav"/>
<audio path="audio/audio15.wav"/>
</audios>
<images>
<image>::TEST FOR IMAGE LOADING:: from the xml file.</image>
<image path="images/cpp/image1.jpg"/>
<image path="images/cpp/image2.jpg"/>
<image path="images/cpp/image3.jpg"/>
<image path="images/cpp/image4.jpg"/>
<image path="images/cpp/image5.jpg"/>
<image path="images/cpp/image6.jpg"/>
<image path="images/cpp/image7.jpg"/>
<image path="images/cpp/image8.jpg"/>
<image path="images/cpp/image9.jpg"/>
<image path="images/cpp/image10.jpg"/>
<image path="images/cpp/image11.jpg"/>
<image path="images/cpp/image12.jpg"/>
<image path="images/cpp/image13.jpg"/>
<image path="images/cpp/image14.jpg"/>
<image path="images/cpp/image15.jpg"/>
</images>
<texts>
<text path="text/cpp/text1.txt"/>
<text path="text/cpp/text2.txt"/>
<text path="text/cpp/text3.txt"/>
<text path="text/cpp/text4.txt"/>
<text path="text/cpp/text5.txt"/>
<text path="text/cpp/text6.txt"/>
<text path="text/cpp/text7.txt"/>
<text path="text/cpp/text8.txt"/>
<text path="text/cpp/text9.txt"/>
<text path="text/cpp/text10.txt"/>
<text path="text/cpp/text11.txt"/>
<text path="text/cpp/text12.txt"/>
<text path="text/cpp/text13.txt"/>
<text path="text/cpp/text14.txt"/>
<text path="text/cpp/text15.txt"/>
</texts>
<movieclips>
<movieclip path="movieclip/cpp/movieclip1.swf"/>
<movieclip path="movieclip/cpp/movieclip2.swf"/>
<movieclip path="movieclip/cpp/movieclip3.swf"/>
<movieclip path="movieclip/cpp/movieclip4.swf"/>
<movieclip path="movieclip/cpp/movieclip5.swf"/>
<movieclip path="movieclip/cpp/movieclip6.swf"/>
<movieclip path="movieclip/cpp/movieclip7.swf"/>
<movieclip path="movieclip/cpp/movieclip8.swf"/>
<movieclip path="movieclip/cpp/movieclip9.swf"/>
<movieclip path="movieclip/cpp/movieclip10.swf"/>
<movieclip path="movieclip/cpp/movieclip11.swf"/>
<movieclip path="movieclip/cpp/movieclip12.swf"/>
<movieclip path="movieclip/cpp/movieclip13.swf"/>
<movieclip path="movieclip/cpp/movieclip14.swf"/>
<movieclip path="movieclip/cpp/movieclip15.swf"/>
</movieclips>
</assets>

Special Chars Like "ã" Followed By An "f"
I'm loading text externally from XML... when I use special chars like "ã" that chars shows up followed by an "f"... Why this happens?!

check it!
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Flash:
onLoad(){
System.useCodePage=true;
}

XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Is something missing?!

Clock In German Language?
how can i make a clock which is in german language?
please.. i know some of you have done this..

Problem With German Characters
Hello there,
I have a problem with a site I am creating in two languages, english/german.
I have finished the english version, I used static text and the fonds are _sans.
Now I'm trying to copy from a Word file the german text (which has been given to me) and paste it into my flash movie, but some characters (umlaut and sharp s) are not displaying correctly.
I am using PC, Flash 5, the languages installed are Greek & English.
Thank you in advance.

[F8] LoadVars Using Php With German Language
hey all

I'm having a really weird problem to display German text in flash while
using LoadVars with a dynamic textbox, I'm loading it from mysql database using php.
I'm almost 100% I need to encode the text before using it in flash.
I tryed to replace all "&" with "%26" but php refer it to the german letters.
When I don't replace those letters flash just cut my text.

Anyone knows what is the solution for this problem ?

German Text Characters
Hi Mr Kirupa,

I followed your tutorial on Flash MX on scrolling Dynamically loaded text and it worked wonderfully .... But I encountered one small problem.... The external text file contains German text characters (and the whole text file is in German) eg Ü ä ß ö Ö etc and player doesn't read it and instead gives squares etc... If I do it as scrollable internal text, the german characters come out fine but the italics are not interpreted... I am only a beginner to intermediate with Flash so would you have any suggestion of what I am doing wrong ??

Eric L

Does Anyone Know A Site That Has The Names Of The Planets In German ?
Does anyone know a site that has the names of the planets in German ?

Can't Read German Letters Ü Ö Ä ß From XML File
Hi Guys

I have a problem with my XML import. The german letters are not read correctly 'ü' 'ö' 'ä' 'ß' ... i only see some cryptic characters instead of them, when running my flash... Is there a way to display them??

German Ladybugs And Collision Detection
Hello Everyone,

I'm hoping that one of you would be kind enough to help me with some action script.

I’m developing a little flash game (Flash 8) for a German bank. See a work in progress here. Basically, the player must find a four-leaf clover with the help of a magnifying glass and tips from ladybugs.

My problem is with the ladybug tips (movies). I would like for the clip event to begin not only on mouse over but also when the magnifying lens collides with the ladybug.

How do I do that?

Here is the existing action script on the ladybugs:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) { // runs a hit test
if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)) {
this.nextFrame(); // if true the mc plays forward
} else {
this.prevFrame(); // if not plays backwards to beginning
}
}

Ho can I execute the above also when the lens object collides with the ladybug movie?

All of your ideas and support are most appreciated. Thank you.

-Best,

Flash Pro 8 Is Working In A Different Language (german Maybe)
for some reason the whole workspace is in aweird language (possibly german) -i suspect that its a family member's doing-and since it's in that language i cant make it go back to english. can anyone help me? i already tried a bunch of random things that didnt work.

Comment German Live Docs
Hi,

did anyone succeed to post a comment on german live docs? I think I
tried once last year, and I tried once a few days ago. But I allways get
an error message from adobe. I send a mail to the postmaster but he did
not answer.

Is there any reason why it is not useable?

Dynamic Text, Xml Files, And The German Language :)
Ok, me and my partner are having the biggest trouble with this!
Heres what we are trying to do, we are trying to make a flash header file, that has dynamic navigation. Now, we easly have flash reading from our .xml file, but our problem is.... when we try to use special characters that are NEEDED in the german language, they dont show up!
for example, these characters are a must!

äöüÄÖÜß@€

but when we add them to our .xml file, flash just scipts the character and goes on like it never saw it.. We did try playing with the character options and embeded all the font outlines, but still no good, I was just wondering if anyone had the same problem!! We are on a tight schudele and the client is waiting :P
so, no hurry!!
www.medianstudios.com/DGB

-Robert

www.medianstudios.com

URGENT - - > Email Out Of A Flash Form Via PHP, German Charset? < - -
hello there,

once again im kinda helpless. here's the situation:
i have a flash form to send emails. im using php mail() to send
the mail. everything works out fine except the charset.
german characters like "ö" or "ä" r not displayed. so am i using
the wrong charset and if so, which would b the correct one?
here's the script:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
<?php

$toEmail = "alb-becker@t-online.de";
$toName = "Alex Becker";
$toSubject = $UsrSubject;
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0
";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 1
";
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High
";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: php
";
$headers .= "From: "".$UsrName."" <".$UsrEmail.">
";
$emailBody = "Email erhalten von: $UsrFirstName $UsrLastName

Firma: $UsrCompany

Email: $UsrEmail

gesendete Nachricht: $UsrComment

";
$emailMsg = $emailBody;
mail($toName." <".$toEmail." >",$toSubject,$emailMsg, $headers);
print("&_root.emptyModule.emailStatus=Email gesendet!");
print("&loading=NO");

?>
-------------------------------------------------------------------
i have to b rdy with that tomorrow and that's the only thingy which is not working yet, but i have no clue what im doin wrong here.

as usual every help appreciated