"&" character and variable

How can I implement "&" symbol into value of variable standing in a text
file. The problem is: Flash understands "&" symbol as beginning of a new
variable.
Thanks.
Alexei.

How can I implement "&" symbol into value of variable standing in a text
file. The problem is: Flash understands "&" symbol as beginning of a new
variable.
Thanks.
Alexei.

You will find a whole list of replacement ascii code at this page. %26 is what you need for the & this should help you out. Regards, Bill

http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...l_encoding.htm

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I have dynamic text in my movie. Text variables are located in a text file. All is working properly. But there is one moment. The text in my variables is on German, containing specific characters such as ö (0246) ä (0228) ü
(0252).
1. If I save the text file as ANSI my special characters are replaced by usual "o", "a" and "u".

2. If I save as UNICODE Flash doesn't read text varibles from it.

3. If I save as UTF-8 Flash converts this simbols to something else.

Help me! And how can I resolve this problem with Russian?

Thanks.
Alexei.

These characters have to be URL encoded as well. You could probably use a search and replace function to replace your special characters with the URL encoding (as specified in the post above).


hth,
Deep (just a guy)

<pre><font face="courier" size="2">,-----------------------------.

| Pradeep Kumar Nair, B.Math |

| Graphic/Multimedia Designer |

| ICQ#: 39102360 |

| Medius Communications, Inc. |

| http://www.medius.com |

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I've put together a little page that will do the URL encoding for you. You can get to it by clicking here. I've not tested it in Netscape, but it works fine in IE.

Thanks! Your program is working super.Please, leave it!
And what about any text on russian? Should I encode it each time?
Alexei.

I don't think you can use the encoding for Russian. I didn't see Russian characters as part of the encoding list. Your best bet is to either embed characters, and then parse the input from the file, replacing special characters with the embedded characters, or else you can try switching to Director for your project, which will handle double-byte languages, and embed fonts, etc. Does anyone know if Flash 5 will allow you to embed fonts? From what I understand, you still can't do that, but I'm not positive...


hth,
Deep (just a guy)

<pre><font face="courier" size="2">,-----------------------------.

| Pradeep Kumar Nair, B.Math |

| Graphic/Multimedia Designer |

| ICQ#: 39102360 |

| Medius Communications, Inc. |

| http://www.medius.com |

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Hi!
You are right. I steel can't insert russian characters as dynamic text. There is no problems with static text, but dynamic is awfull. Your ebcoder helps with german (thank you!), but with russian I have 3 variants (in all possible combinations):
1. 041C0430043C043020043C044B-looking like "text"
2. no text at all
3. strange looking characters
I embeded font - just the same... (only increasing size of swf-file).
Alexei.