Got the same problem. Doesn't help if I set the encoding of the website (that the flash is on) manually to something not UTF-8 (eg. ISO-8859-1). Tested on http://www.flashtexteditor.com/ in demo mode.
My setup: Ubuntu 8.04.1, amd64 architecture Linux server11 2.6.24-19-server #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 21:50:43 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux flashplugin-nonfree: 9.0.124.0ubuntu2 -- Wrong character encoding in text input https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190263 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs