[Extendflash] Using the JSFL FLFile.write and UTF8

[Morten Barklund Shockwaved]

Tomas van der Haase wrote:
> in case u need a[nother] reason to upgrade:
> 
> brsnyder here at macromedia pointed out this Flash 8 functionality  
> which is potentially of interest:
> 
>>> Flash 8, outputPanel.save() has
>>> added an option that does this:
>>>
>>> bUseSystemEncoding  An optional Boolean value. If true, it saves
>>> the Output panel text using the system encoding; if false, it saves
>>> the Output panel text using UTF-8 encoding, with Byte Order Mark
>>> characters at the beginning of the text. The default value is false.
>>>
>>> ...
>>> ... the user could trace his script to the Output panel
>>> and then save it!

That sounds like a hack :/

But why isn't the FLfile.write extended with a similar flag - it would 
be so easy, it would seem. And as it is an external plugin, it could 
quite easily be added and distributed - even outside the scope of 8-ball 
(assuming that the JSFL plugin API hasn't changed).

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