Special characters

[AndyField]

I have a program that allows people to customise my quiz game.

The user types in their questions, and then the I use SWFGen to add the questions to a new game file.

I've found a problem though - whilst special characters (e.g. é â ä à å ç and so on) can be entered into the input text boxes, when I generate the new swf. they simply don't appear, showing a square box instead.

Is there any way I can make this work? It seems when I generate a file using SWFGen, it 'loses' the special characters.

I think this has something to do with SWFGen...

[SWFKit]

Are you working with swfgen 2.0r12? It supports special characters. We've just made a game with chinese questions and answers using your application.

[AndyField]

I shall check this out. Thanks for your comments. Could you send me the game or upload it? It would be fantastic to see it with Chinese characters?

[AndyField]

I've just checked and I was using the previous version.

I've downloaded the newer one and tried it out. It does seem to work.

[AndyField]

Unfortunately now I've tested this further I keep encountering difficulties.

My program takes inputted text and generates a new .swf by replacing text.

What I have found is that if I enter 'Español' - and pass this through SWFGen - the letter after the 'ñ' is dropped.

However. I the variable is passed correctly by SWFGen as the .html page that is created at the same time has the correct characters.

A 'solution' is to add an extra space after any special characters, but this isn't ideal.

Can you offer any solutions?

[AndyField]

Found the solution ;D

Before I pass the text through SWFGen I use the 'escape' command to urlencode the text. I then run 'unescape' to un-urlencode the text.

Works now (I hope!) :