If you don't mind the overhead you can use the escape and unescape functions (build into flash player, so they are (or at least seem) to be performant)
-----Original Message----- From: manitas manitas [mailto:manitas0...@gmail.com] Sent: 29 August 2013 11:38 To: users Subject: Re: Pb with special characters and accents Thanks for your help. The fact is that If you look at the snippet in my previous email I don't think it's a transfer problem. The charset problem happens before the transfer so I think that even if I put the data inside a XML the resulting string won't be correct. By the way I only transfer small Strings. Maybe I'm wrong but I think that the real questions are why URLVariables is not able to transform my accent correctly ? and even without using URLVariables why the output of trace("omé") is omé ? and more generaly how do you manage charset in a flex app ? (I didn't manage to find any good documentation about this) 2013/8/29 Miguel Ferreira <miguel.cd.ferre...@hotmail.com> > Hi, > I don't know what data type are you transferring to your server > side.In my last application i had to use JSON and inside a XML with > data about text (pages of text!). > To not loose the content i add to create a child on the XML item for > the content with cdata like this: > private function addChildCDATA(text:String):XML { > return new XML("<![CDATA[" + text+ "]]\>"); > } > This solved my problem. > In other project i used base64 encode on the front-end and decoding on > back-end. > Try this both alternatives and i hope that helps with your problem. > Miguel. > > > Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:12:45 +0200 > > Subject: Re: Pb with special characters and accents > > From: manitas0...@gmail.com > > To: users@flex.apache.org > > > > Thanks for your help but the problem seems to be related to the > > charset used by the app before or during the encoding of the post vars. > > > > The class URLVariables normally does the encoding to standard post > > variables for me so that non-asci characters are transformed that way : > > http://www.degraeve.com/reference/urlencoding.php > > > > Here is a snippet of my problem: > > var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables(); > > variables.var1 = "omé"; > > trace(variables.toString); > > > > the trace output is > > var1=om%C3%A9 > > > > instead of > > var1=om%E9 > > > > Any idea ? > > > > Do you know how to force UTF-8 charset for an adobe air app ? > > > > > > 2013/8/29 Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> > > > > > I think that is two different issues. There is a standard for > > > POST > data > > > and you probably have to encode non-ascii characters. See encode() > method. > > > > > > On 8/28/13 3:04 PM, "manitas manitas" <manitas0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > >Thanks for your answer. > > > > > > > >I have just test to put an accent directly in the trace function > > > >like > this > > > > : trace("é"); > > > >And there is the same encoding issue so it should not be a > > > >problem > from > > > >the > > > >TextInput. > > > > > > > >You said I can't rely on the trace function but this encoding > > > >problem > also > > > >appears when I directly the "é" to a remote server using the POST > method > > > >of > > > >an URLRequest. > > > > > > > >I'm completely stucked, do you have any idea how to investigate > further ? > > > > > > > > > > > >2013/8/28 Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> > > > > > > > >> trace() is a low-level Flash debugger feature. I'm not sure > > > >>you can rely on it regarding character sets. > > > >> > > > >> On 8/28/13 1:56 PM, "manitas manitas" <manitas0...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> > > > >> >Hi, > > > >> > > > > >> >I'm using the apache flex 4.10 sdk to develop an Adobe Air > > > >> >desktop > app > > > >>for > > > >> >Windows. > > > >> > > > > >> >I have a problem with special characters and accents. > > > >> > > > > >> >In fact all my mxml file starts with the following line : > > > >> ><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > > >> > > > > >> >but when I try to get the text of a spark TextInput and trace > > > >> >it > in the > > > >> >output console or send it to a remote server there is a > > > >> >problem of > > > >>charset > > > >> >encoding. > > > >> > > > > >> >For example if I type "é" in the TextInput the display is ok > > > >> >in > the app > > > >> >but > > > >> >if I get and trace the text of this TextInput I have this : é > > > >> > > > > >> >I don't know what I'm missing and where to find the encoding > > > >>configuration > > > >> >for my app. > > > >> > > > > >> >Thanks in advance for your help. > > > >> > > > > >> >Best regards > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > >