Accented characters, XML, Flash

I have a flash application which is pulling information to
populate dynamic fields from two XML files. We have three
languages supported, and have been having problems with the
non-english accented characters displaying properly
when they are called from the XML. I have checked that the
XML files are encoded in UTF-8, and we have also tried writing
the html code, the unicode code, putting the information in a
C DATA shell. I'm out of options that I can think of, and I'd
appreciate if any other folks have some input on this issue.
I did find this other thread which seems to be about the same
issue, but there was no resolution given on it.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=15&catid=194&threadid =1212142&highlight_key=y&keyword1=accent%20characters

So the same questions arise. What happens in the testing
environment if you trace it or if you go Debug and list variables?
Also you say they aren't displaying properly. What does that
mean? Exactly how are they improper?
PS: I'm absolutely certain that the other thread was not
correctly saving as UTF-8.

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I am using dbms_lob.loadclobfrom file to load the file.
DBMS_LOB.OPEN(src_clob, DBMS_LOB.LOB_READONLY);
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        , SRC_BFILE    => src_clob
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        , DEST_OFFSET => dst_offset
        , SRC_OFFSET   => src_offset
        , BFILE_CSID   =>dbms_lob.default_csid
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        , WARNING      => warning
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cmF0YVZlcnNpb249IjAiPg0KICAgIDxncDpEZXNjcmlwdGlvbj5Gb3J1bSBUZXN0
PC9ncDpEZXNjcmlwdGlvbj4NCiAgICA8Z3A6RGF0YUVsZW1lbnQgTmFtZT0iw6Fj
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bGVzLzEuMS4wIGh0dHA6Ly9uYW1lc3BhY2VzLmdsb2JhbHBsYXRmb3JtLm9yZy9z
eXN0ZW1zLXByb2ZpbGVzLzEuMS4wL0dQLnN5c3RlbXMucHJvZmlsZXMuMS4xLjAu
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bWVzcGFjZXMuZ2xvYmFscGxhdGZvcm0ub3JnL3N5c3RlbXMtcHJvZmlsZXMvMS4x
LjAiDQogICAgVW5pcXVlSUQ9Ik1FIiBQcm9maWxlVmVyc2lvbj0iMS4xLjAiIEVy
cmF0YVZlcnNpb249IjAiPg0KICAgIDxncDpEZXNjcmlwdGlvbj5Gb3J1bSBUZXN0
PC9ncDpEZXNjcmlwdGlvbj4NCiAgICA8Z3A6RGF0YUVsZW1lbnQgTmFtZT0iYWNj
ZW50IiBFeHRlcm5hbD0idHJ1ZSIgVHlwZT0iQnl0ZVN0cmluZyIgRW5jb2Rpbmc9
IkhFWCIgRml4ZWRMZW5ndGg9ImZhbHNlIiBMZW5ndGg9IjE2IiBSZWFkV3JpdGU9
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<gp:ApplicationProfile xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
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utl_raw.cast_to_raw(
'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gp:ApplicationProfile xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://namespaces.globalplatform.org/systems-profiles/1.1.0 http://namespaces.globalplatform.org/systems-profiles/1.1.0/GP.systems.profiles.1.1.0.ApplicationProfile.xsd"
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    <gp:Description>Forum Test</gp:Description>
    <gp:DataElement Name="áccent" External="true" Type="ByteString" Encoding="HEX" FixedLength="false" Length="16" ReadWrite="true" Update="true" Optional="true" />
</gp:applicationprofile>'
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Y2F0aW9uUHJvZmlsZSB4bWxuczp4c2k9Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cudzMub3JnLzIwMDEv
WE1MU2NoZW1hLWluc3RhbmNlIgogICAgeHNpOnNjaGVtYUxvY2F0aW9uPSJodHRw
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cy8xLjEuMCBodHRwOi8vbmFtZXNwYWNlcy5nbG9iYWxwbGF0Zm9ybS5vcmcvc3lz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But on above mentioned version I can do the simplified method
SQL> SELECT utl_i18n.raw_to_char (
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<gp:ApplicationProfile xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://namespaces.globalplatform.org/systems-profiles/1.1.0 http://namespaces.globalplatform.org/systems-profiles/1.1.0/GP.systems.profiles.1.1.0.ApplicationProfile.xsd"
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</gp:ApplicationProfile>').getblobval (
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X
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Y2F0aW9uUHJvZmlsZSB4bWxuczp4c2k9Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cudzMub3JnLzIwMDEv
WE1MU2NoZW1hLWluc3RhbmNlIiB4c2k6c2NoZW1hTG9jYXRpb249Imh0dHA6Ly9u
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LXByb2ZpbGVzLzEuMS4wL0dQLnN5c3RlbXMucHJvZmlsZXMuMS4xLjAuQXBwbGlj
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b2JhbHBsYXRmb3JtLm9yZy9zeXN0ZW1zLXByb2ZpbGVzLzEuMS4wIiBVbmlxdWVJ
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CiAgPGdwOkRlc2NyaXB0aW9uPkZvcnVtIFRlc3Q8L2dwOkRlc2NyaXB0aW9uPgog
IDxncDpEYXRhRWxlbWVudCBOYW1lPSLDoWNjZW50IiBFeHRlcm5hbD0idHJ1ZSIg
VHlwZT0iQnl0ZVN0cmluZyIgRW5jb2Rpbmc9IkhFWCIgRml4ZWRMZW5ndGg9ImZh
bHNlIiBMZW5ndGg9IjE2IiBSZWFkV3JpdGU9InRydWUiIFVwZGF0ZT0idHJ1ZSIg
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2009.10.30 at 15:27:23:358: Thread-13: Repository - (INFORMATION) BIND VARS = (7720B238D6E7808EE0430AFA0B04808E-11-1, 11, 1, N, , 1070, clob, <?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
2009.10.30 at 15:30:59:311: Thread-13: B2B - (DEBUG) oracle.tip.adapter.b2b.callout.B2BCalloutHandler:processIncomingCallout payload after callout: <?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
2009.10.30 at 15:30:59:368: Thread-13: Repository - (INFORMATION) BIND VARS = (7720B238D6F2808EE0430AFA0B04808E-11-1, 11, 1, N, , 1070, clob, <?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
<?xml version="1.0" *encoding="utf-8"* ?>
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Do we need to remove the commented lines in the tip.properties file?
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HI,
From http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96529/ch9.htm
My understanding is the JDBC Api converts the string from the database to UTF-16.. If so is there any way to disable the UTF-16 encoding at JDBC API?That's exactly what it's supposed to do. There isn't even any concept of what it would mean to disable that: Java characters are UTF-16 representations of Unicode code-points, so there isn't anything else it could do.
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Here's a snippet of code:
property baseURL : "http://musicbrainz.org/ws/1/release/"
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This gives me a 503 error from URL Access Scripting, but when I paste the variable just copied to the clipboard into Firefox, the page loads perfectly. Pasting it into Safari, it doesn't work.
I'm guessing it has something to do with either the way URL Access Scripting and Safari rawurlencode their URLs, or some Unicode / Latin-1 problems.
Oh, and for album titles without accented characters it all works perfectly. Any idea why this is happening? Thanks!

Hello
I think you need to escape URI string properly.
Try replacing the line:
set queryURL to "?type=xml&releasetypes=Official&limit=10&title=" & albumTitle
with these two lines:
set escapedTitle to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of albumTitle & " | perl -Mutf8 -MURI::Escape -lne 'print uri_escape($_);'"
set queryURL to "?type=xml&releasetypes=Official&limit=10&title=" & escapedTitle
Hope this may help,
H
Message was edited by: Hiroto (fixed typo: URI::Escape is the correct module.)

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Amanda Nguyen

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<item id="2" label="E-mail" required="true">
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<serverProcessorType>php</serverProcessorType>
<serverProcessorFileName>contact</serverProcessorFileName>
<validateRequiredOnly>false</validateRequiredOnly>
<submitFormOnEnter>true</submitFormOnEnter>
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<emailFromSource>2</emailFromSource>
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<message type="negativeError">{LABEL} - The specified number must not be negative.</message>
<message type="minRequirementError">{LABEL} - The minimum number of variants is not
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I am working and learning and I would like to create the contact.php for my contact form.
Please help !
Amanda

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Hi,
I wrote a little script to export the metadata to an xml file. I am having some problems where the tags contain accented characters (áéö etc.).
I managed to write the xml file with unicode encoding and the unicode characters contained in the script are transferred correctly.
However the special characters in the metadata tags are being transformed to some unreadable characters.
Is there any way to make sure these characters are transferred correctly?
Thank you
Balint

David,
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I tried setting the output file encoding to UTF-8 or UTF-16, with or without setting the BOM. The accented characters still come out unreadable. I tried the examples that came with the SDK (output set to the console) and they too scramble the accented characters.
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Please download the file attached and you can own it as well.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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<button text="Kunst and Design" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
<button text="Teknisk/praktisk linje" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
<button text="Gastronomi" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
<button text="Laekker mad" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
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<button text="Turbo-boglig" url="http://www.google.com" target="_parent"></button>
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Hello all,
I work with clients who are unable to talk due to various developmental delays. We use the Proloquo2go app which uses the regular iPad keyboard for communication. Is there a way to disable the accented characters from popping up when typing on the keyboard? This is very distracting for some of our clients. Thanks in advance for any advice.
Nikki

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http://mashable.com/2012/05/11/ipad-special-needs/

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I have a database instance with NLS_CHARACTERSET = 'AL32UTF'. I upload a csv file with APEX into WW_FLOW_FILES table and then parse it with dbms_lob.instr. The problem that I am facing is that if I save the CSV file in UTF8, then this works fine, if I save it in any other encoding then it's displaying 'funny' characters when I try to parse it and display the parsing result and the source data contains some accented characters, like, á, é, ő etc,
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