special characters from a external textfile

[zurie]

i am trying to load:

™

and

®


from a variable.txt file....


no matter what i do it does not work..

i have tried HTML code, and i have tried those

\™ commands, etc, etc.. but nothing is seeming to work...

[kaluzhny]

for specific characters use
escape() and unescape() functions:

escape("™") == "%E2%84%A2"
unescape("%E2%84%A2") == "™"

[zurie]

uh...

ooooookkkkaaaay ?


sooooo...

that was sorta helpful, cept i have no clue what or where or when i should do that..

can you explain more..

1) do i put it in the first frame of my movie?
i have multiple target levels...

do i use level0

2) do i use unicode?

3) do i use that System.useCodepage=true

4) do i write my ™ in the text file? or do i write a special character code for it to display..

thanks for helping, i hope what you have planned works...

[kaluzhny]

1) these function you may use anywhere
2) i don't test for unicode
3) is it needfull for you?
4) the good way is text file contain only usual symbols if you whant to translate string to escape format just run movie with this action:

trace(escape("your string here"))

[zurie]

yes, i figured this out right after you posted it...

the escape just gives me the URL encoding of whatever i put in the ( )

now..

if i do ™ it = %99


and when i view it in the flash file, it comes up like this

Å™


no matter what i do, i get that crappy "Å"

i basically gave up and just loaded the text into the movie, rather than pull it from a .txt variable...

o well

thanks for everyones help anyway