XMLConnector with Czech characters in the URL

[mythicwave]

I'm writing a game that use the XMLConnector object to bring local xml data into a DataSet object.  My URL is, for example: data/quiz.xml.  I have everything working well.  But I'm localizing my game for Czech and Russian and when the game is installed to a path with Czech specific (high ascii) characters, the data import fails.  This is strange because the relative path (data/quiz.xml) doesn't change.  For example, my Czech install path contains the partial path: Vyšetřit Bobíčka.  If I just use normal English characters for this, I don't have a problem.  The swf is an embedded sprite in a Director game, but I don't think this is relevant.

I looked into using fl.mapPlayerURL to format the path as UTF-8 but it doesn't look like this is the solution.  Another thing I thought of would be embed the xml data inside Flash and copy it to a temp folder when needed.  I'm using AS2.

Any solutions or suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Brian

[Colin Holgate]

No big rush to answer your question I see!

I don't know the answer either, but one thing as a possible work around, have Director get the text, and pass it into the Flash sprite.

[mythicwave]

I've already solved this with Valentin's help.  I just convert the full XML file path to a DOS 8.3 path with baShortFileName and pass that to the Flash sprite.  It could be that CS4 or another work around will fix it also.

Barring a complete rewrite, the XML files need to be external.  That's the way the Flash object works as far as I know.

Thanks,

Brian

[mythicwave]

I've already solved this with Valentin's help. I just convert the full XML

file path to a DOS 8.3 path with baShortFileName and pass that to the Flash

sprite. It could be that CS4 or another work around will fix it also.

Barring a complete rewrite, the XML files need to be external. That's the

way the Flash object works as far as I know.

Thanks,

Brian