ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

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•IfSystem.useCodepage is true and the system is not an Asian language double-byte

system, the character is replaced with a hexadecimal escape sequence

%xx, where

xx is the hex code point for the character. The code point is determined using the

system code page (typically Latin 1 on most Western computers). Note that on

Macs, the system code page is Mac Roman, but Flash uses Latin 1 instead.

•If

System.useCodepage is true and the system is an Asian language double-byte sys-

tem, the character is replaced with a hexadecimal escape sequence

%xx or %xx%xx,

using the double-byte character encoding supported by the system (for example,

Shift-JIS).

• Flash 5 and previous Players behave as if

System.useCodepage is true.

The following code shows the contents of a text file to be imported into Flash. The

imported variables are

name and address, which have the values "stephen" and "65 nowhere

st!"

, respectively (note that the exclamation point is encoded as %21):

name=stephen&address=65+nowhere+st%21

Generally, server-side applications automatically URL encode variables for transmission to

Flash, but variables in text files must be URL-encoded by hand. For example, in Flash

Player 5 (or when

System.useCodePage is true in Flash Player