Special Characters Flash XML

Trying to create lists containing a number of languages which contain special characters such as acute, circumflex and umlaut. The format is a flash movie referencing a xml file.
The characters are either not displayed or if I use number/text codes they are displayed instead.

Examples

<MAIN text="HNP006 Käyttöopas" url="ma.......

<MAIN text="HNP006 Käyttöopas" url="ma......

Any ideas

I'm not sure what to tell you. It seems like it's probably a flash issue. Here are some resources for supporting internationalization in flash. The first one looks promising: http://www.i18ngurus.com/docs/1017213676.html

hi!
can anyone tell me how to parse the letter 'e' with an acute accent from xml to flash. am not able to do it. and also i want to make a letter superscripted while parsing from xml to flash. can any of u tell me how to do it ASAP.

thanx

arthi

Why don't you try starting a new thread in the Flash forum? You've got a better chance of someone with an answer seeing the thread there.

I came into the same problem and I think I found the solution in http://www.macromedia.com/support/f..._in_flmx05.html

It seems that Flash only understands text encoded in UNICODE format (UTF-8, UTF-16 ...). I came to 2 possible ways of managing this:
-Setting the flash property: system.useCode=true; this makes flash use the local codePage to decode the text.
-Saving the xml file with UTF encoding.

Hope it suits.

I know this is old, but Flash does process its own list of special characters, you just have to input the special character code into the xml doc.

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/url_encoding.htm

The only issue is that you will need to convert these characters if you used them in any other language other than Flash (actionscript).

In the XML file, the first line needs to include encoding="UTF-8"
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