OK, I got the answer from some Player engineers. Unfortunately, the Player actually uses both UTF-8 and UTF-16 at various times to represent strings internally. It does a good amount of conversion back and forth due to the way it needs to interact with the various operating systems that it runs on.
Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Smith Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 11:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [flexcoders] what is a String? (default encoding question) > Always frustrating when I bump up against the wall where open source becomes > closed. I wrote a Player engineer and asked but haven't gotten a reply. The Taramin AS3 engine is open-source as part of the Mozilla project. I don't have time to look at the code to answer your question, but maybe you can take a look yourself. Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pan Troglodytes Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 7:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] what is a String? (default encoding question) Thousands of rows of columnar data. Doesn't really matter, though. The help for both readUTF and readMultiByte says: Returns String - UTF-8 encoded string. So no matter what I do, it appears the ByteArray can only return UTF-8 anyway. Considering this, I might as well write it to the file in UTF-8. Of course, I suppose that internally ByteArray could read it in as something different, then convert it to UTF-8. So that it would read my UTF-8, convert it to something else, then convert it back to UTF-8 and return it. That would suck but it's impossible to tell without input from the people who can actually see that code. Always frustrating when I bump up against the wall where open source becomes closed. On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:09 AM, Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: On Friday 17 Oct 2008, Pan Troglodytes wrote: > The reason I ask is because I'm reading some string data in from a binary > file and Some ? A large amount ? How large ? -- Tom Chiverton Helping to centrally deploy high-end dynamic fourth-generation open-source action-items **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com<http://www.halliwells.com>. ------------------------------------ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links Individual Email | Traditional -- Jason
