[Extendflash] Using the JSFL FLFile.write and UTF8

[Barbara Snyder]

You are right - it is a hack! :) I was simply suggesting it as a
"better-than-nothing" workaround. And yes, that feature probably could
and should have been implemented for JSFL.write() but the idea wasn't
suggested until now, and sadly it's too late to make it in for Flash 8. 
 
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Thanks -- Barbara   

-----Original Message-----
From: extendflash-bounces at flashguru.co.uk
[mailto:extendflash-bounces at flashguru.co.uk] On Behalf Of Morten
Barklund Shockwaved
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 12:24 PM
To: extendflash at flashguru.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Extendflash] Using the JSFL FLFile.write and UTF8

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).

-- 
Morten Barklund - Information Architect - Shockwaved ApS
Larsbjoernsstraede 8 - DK-1454 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Phone: +45 7027 2227 - Fax: +45 3369 1174
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