special characters??? have to write my own parser?

[bridic]

I wrote a nifty drop down menu using xml, and have now found out that it fails when I try language versionizing. I.e. for german ö (&ouml and spanish ñ (&ntilde the parser just ends the string where it found the offending character.

in normal xml this would be solved with entity tags in the ddt and unicode representations:

<!DOCTYPE names [
<!ENTITY nbsp " ">
<!ENTITY ccedilla"ç">
]>

or direct unicode like:

<xslasd>hello there</xslasd>

but the flash parser seems to ignore both options.

This must have gone around many times, any re-usable code out there ?

Suggestions?

thanks before hand :~)

[CarlaChi?]

Hy,
I had the same problem and I solved it with this:
System.UseCodePage = true;
in the flash movie.
But now I have a different question: this works fine on a PC but it doesn't on MAC.
I know someone else had the same problem but I can't find the previous thread, excuse me.
Can you help us?
Thank you very much
Carla

[bridic]

sorry, I'm writing for Flash5 (believe it or not) :~(

so I don't even have access to the System object.

What I'm doing right now is writing my own secondary parser to replace the & persand characters with the proper ASCII characters. I may not work because the Flash parser seems to even get stuck on turkish & characters (for example it stops if i give it & #252 (without the space))??? Why I dont know if it isnt parzing the & persand character anyway?

but at least it doesn't choke on the more regular & persand characters like & uuml; (without the space), it just ignores it and includes it in the text string, which I can then sift out and replace later.

Suggestions anyone, the flash community cant be all in the US?

[CarlaChi?]

Hy!
I solved it, now it works properly on MAC too. I just saved the xml file as unicode encoding, a powerful notepad feature .
Thank you
Carla
P.S.: VAYKENT for moderator!