[Flashcoders] Deafening silence on Unicode

2006-05-30 Thread Danny Kodicek
Ok, I haven't had a lot of response to my various queries to this list about Unicode issues. Is that because no one here knows anything about it? I'd really appreciate some thoughts on this issue or pointers to any resources, as I'm currently embarking on a major project to completely revamp

Re: [Flashcoders] Deafening silence on Unicode

2006-05-30 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto
but can it also deal with UTF-16? UCS? Other encodings? Can it deal with Big-end/little-endian? If so, how does it go about working out which encoding to use to interpret a particular file? Flash Player 6 and later looks at BOM when reading text data. If it's 0xFE the data is treated as

Re: [Flashcoders] Deafening silence on Unicode

2006-05-30 Thread Danny Kodicek
but can it also deal with UTF-16? UCS? Other encodings? Can it deal with Big-end/little-endian? If so, how does it go about working out which encoding to use to interpret a particular file? Flash Player 6 and later looks at BOM when reading text data. If it's 0xFE the data is treated as

[Flashcoders] Deafening silence on Unicode

2006-05-30 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto
I *may* be able to cut out the Director middleman altogether by getting Flash to talk to the server directly. That's how I would do it, Danny. I am also waiting for Director 11 with Unicode, although no one actually said Director 11 will support Unicode - I am just hoping if I kept saying it

Re: [Flashcoders] Deafening silence on Unicode

2006-05-30 Thread Danny Kodicek
I *may* be able to cut out the Director middleman altogether by getting Flash to talk to the server directly. That's how I would do it, Danny. I'd have done it already if I thought I could ;) There's an awful lot of unhooking data from one place and putting it somewhere else in this