Re: FLASH: JS SetVariable and extended chars

[John Dowdell]

At 7:44 AM 4/4/0, Ant-1 wrote:

> when passing variables to Flash 4 using the javascript method

> SetVariable, extended chars are messed up.


Although I haven't tested that across a range of browsers myself, I

wouldn't be entirely surprised... only the 128 ASCII values are standard

across systems. The ANSI characters with values from 128-255 vary across

operating systems and language mappings, and extended characters above that

vary even more greatly.


I won't be able to research this today myself, but one thing I'd check for

first would be how various browsers handle various types of extended

characters in various JavaScript and netText operations... this could

provide a clue as to what they might do when passing extended strings to

objects in page.


Sorry, wish I had happier news, but extended characters do vary, and it

gets trickier when passing them between multiple applications.


jd






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