Can't you just skip the first three characters and read from there? Otherwise, you could try removing the BOM before loading the stream (maybe by reading it first as a ByteArray?). I think there's some ActionScript code on this page to do that:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~mechiel/projects/bomstrip/ -- Laurent Cozic Flash, Flex and Web Application development http://pogopixels.com --- On Wed, 2/18/09, Andrew <roly...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Andrew <roly...@gmail.com> Subject: [flexcoders] Reading an UTF-8 document To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 10:19 PM Please forgive me if the is a post about this already but i can't seem to find it. I am creating an AIR app to convert characters into their HTML entity, hex and dec value and I have just come across an issue. I am reading in xml files which contain the data, these files are saved in a UTF-8 format. When I open it using a Filestream it stops after the first 3 characters "ÿþ<". I know that these characters are the start of a unicode document, but I can't figure out why it is stopping reading the file there. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
