I think AS3 uses UTF-16 internally, but I'm not sure about that, and it might change in the future. I suggest that you do some timing tests to see what's fastest.
- Gordon From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pan Troglodytes Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 12:49 PM To: flexcoders Subject: [flexcoders] what is a String? (default encoding question) How is a string represented internally in Flex? It never actually says it in the help for String. Is it UTF-8? I think this because because mxml uses utf-8 as the encoding in the ?xml directive, ByteArray seems to treat utf-8 specially, and ByteArray.readMultiByte says the return value is a utf-8 encoded string. The reason I ask is because I'm reading some string data in from a binary file and I'm trying to figure out the most CPU efficient way to put it in the file. I want it to be in the file in the same encoding that won't require Flex to translate from one encoding to another when storing it in a String variable. Thanks. -- Jason
