external files codepage

Question

Hi, I'm now writting some as that will load information from
several files. However, I am not able to edit these files, and they
may be available with different codifications, like iso8559 or
Unicode. Is there a way to identify the way the text was saved to
load it correclty on flash? Currently I'm facing this exacta
problem: two file I'm loading come with different codifications. If
I set System.useCodePage to true, one of the is correctly read, but
the other, no. The same, when I keep it false...

Rothrock · Answer

You are going to have a hard time. Flash really likes to play with Unicode. I think you would do better to work on finding a way to get all the text into Unicode.

And I don't think there is a way for Flash to identify the contents of the file. And then even if there was, I don't think there is a way to switch how it handles it.

The useCodePage only tells Flash to use the codePage of the users end system. So unless you can count on the end users have the correct local operating system installed…

Sorry. If somebody knows differently I would love to learn.

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