Embedding Spanish characters

Hey, I'm building a bi-lingual tool (english and spanish)
that uses all dynamic text fields. Problem: special Spanish
characters are being dropped, even though I have specified them
within the fields' embed-character sets.
The piece is built as such: all copy is stored as nodes on
two data objects – one english, one spanish. Texts are then
populated into the dynamic text fields from the active language's
object. I have specified
"ÁáÉéÍíÓóÚúÜüÑñ¡¿"
as characters to embed. However, the special characters are
displaying incorrectly (or not at all). For example: "Español"
displays as "Espaol". I also ran into a scenario where the "í"
gylph (as in "Sí") displays as a copyright symbol (©).
If anyone has any insight on this, I'd GREATLY appreciate
it.

How comes the text into the movies? If it's loaded from a
textfile, make sure it's saved in UTF-8/Unicode format. In xml
files, you can include this also in the xml header, like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
but it's more important that the text is saved in the right
format, then Flash should display it right.
Here's more on that:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/languages/flashlocalization/.
hth,
blemmo

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>B wrote:
>> could you explain the difference in 'laymans terms'
>
> UTF-8 (Unicode) is designed to handle virtually all
writing systems,
> including Arabic, Japanese, Chinese - and English.
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> European encoding, which handles only those characters
used in Western
> European languages. ISO-8859-1 actually supports the
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>
>> also I posted another ? regarding a BOM warning that
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