[flexcoders] question on text encoding

Hello all, I wanted to know is it possible for flex to determine what encoding the text being entered in to a textInput, textArea, or HTMLTextInput is using. Thr concern is a user copies and pastes in text from say a Microsoft product. The reason I ask is we have UTF8 encoding for the project,

Re: [flexcoders] question on text encoding

There are several JS based sanity checks out on the web that you can adopt to AS. One important factor is preserving UTF8 once you have it in Flex. All data transactions as well, should be UTF8. For example: your server-side script (bi-directionally) for UTF8 And your database should be setup