Thank you so much Mark, it works with the escape function.
This workaround works but doesn't help me to understand the whole thing,
does it means URLVariables use a different default charset ? how to change
it ? Is it relevant create a bug report for that ?
and I still have my 2 others questions :
Why the output of trace("omé") is omé ? Is it relevant create a bug
report for that ?
Where I can find documentation to know how to manage charset in a flex app
?
Thanks in advance for your support.
2013/8/29 Mark Line <markl...@gmail.com>
> 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
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
>
>
