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>Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 07:47:49 -0400
>Subject: Re: #7125 Re:Unicode input in Flash MX
>From: Henry Wilmer <[log in to unmask]>
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I'm a real novice at this stuff, but is the problem here Windows-only.  I've
had no trouble with French and Spanish accents using the Mac OS, both
versions 9.x and 10.x.  I think that PowerPoint is also a mess for accents
with Windows, requiring either special software or cutting and pasting from
Word.  Wrong?


H

 On 4/18/03 4:45 PM, "LLTI-Editor" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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>> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 13:02:51 -0400
>> To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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>> From: Roberto Perez <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re:Unicode input in Flash MX
>> In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
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> At 03:35 PM 2/28/03, jeremy c munson wrote:
> 
>> Essentially you have to load the text dynamically through a text file...
>> the text file contains actionscript code that is loaded before the movie,
>> but treated just as if it was inside the movie. The text file is saved as
>> unicode type UTF-8, and then you change the file extension to ".as"
>> instead of ".txt";
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Has anyone succedded in using non-English characters in the English version
> of Flash MX? I followed all the instructions on this list and on the
> tutorial links sent to the list, to no avail. Also, some online tutorials
> say all external text is considered as UTF-8 as default, and some say how
> the text is considered by Flash depends on the operating system.
> 
> What I've done so far is to use Windows 2000 to save the text file as
> UTF-8, typing the accented words (in Spanish) from my Spanish keyboard, and
> changing the extension to .as after saving as UTF-8. I also include the
> necessary header (UTF8), but the accented vowels still display incorrectly
> (they are not ASCII, they are not Hex values, just a combination of a cap
> A, a tilde, and a numeral sign, for instance).
> 
> Is Word 2000 adding extra code to the unicode format? Is there a specific
> text editor that should be used to save in pure UTF-8 code?
> 
> If anyone out there has it working, could you send me a simple .fla file
> loading non-English characters from an external text file that is working,
> so that I can see what I might be doing wrong?
> 
> I'm using Windows 98 (English version) with language settings in Spanish
> (traditional sort), Spanish keyboard, and Flash MX (English version).
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> 
> Roberto Perez
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