ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

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Appendix B

APPENDIX B

Latin 1 Character Repertoire

and Keycodes

Table B-1 lists the characters in the Latin 1 character repertoire, with Unicode equiv-

alents in the range of

U+0000 to U+00FF (that is, C0 Controls, Basic Latin, C1 Con-

trols, and Latin 1 Supplemental). The table’s first column (labeled Dec), lists each

character’s code point in decimal (the standard ASCII or Latin 1 value), the second

column provides the Unicode escape sequence for the character, and the third col-

umn describes or shows the character itself. See Chapter 4, for more information on

character encoding in Flash. Tables B-2 and B-3 list the keycodes used with the Key

object. Although there is some overlap, keycodes represent physical keys on the key-

board and have no direct relation to the Latin 1 characters listed in Table B-1. That

said, you’ll notice that the keycodes for letters and numbers, listed in Table B-3, are

identical to the Latin 1 code points (and ASCII values) for the letters A–Z and the

numbers 0–9. See Key.getCode( ) and the Key object in the Language Reference for

more information on keycodes.

For supplementary reading on the topic of character encoding, see the following

resources:

A tutorial on character code issues

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html

A highly informative series