Inserting Text Characters

I need to insert several Unicode characters, stuff like arrows, fractions, etc., which are not directly accessible on the keyboard.
I'm probably missing something, because the only way I can do this (without knowing its unicode number) is to open Word, use its Insert Symbol, and then copy it into Flash. Is there a better way?

You can type in Alt+KeyCodes to enter those glyphs in Muse textframes. E.g. you can type "Alt+0169" to enter the copyright symbol like © or "Alt+0153" for the trademark symbol like ™.
You can Google for Alt Key Codes to lookup more Alt code references like http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/help/keyboards.asp
Cheers,
Vikas

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When I insert text into my MySQL db the special Hungarian
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<cfoutput>#FORM.special_character#</cfoutput> it gives
me the correct text, things go wrong just when writing it into the
db. My hosting provider said the following: "please try to
evidently specify "latin2" charset with "latin2_hungarian_ci"
collation when performing any operations with tables. It is
supported by the server but not used by default." At my former
hosting provider I had no such problem. Anyway how could I do what
my hosting provider has suggested. I read a PHP related article
that said use "SET NAMES latin2". How could I do such thing in
ColdFusion? Any suggestion? Besides I've tried to use UTF8 and
Latin2 character encoding both on my pages and in the db but with
not much success.
I've also read a French language message here in this forum
that suggested to use:
<cfscript>
setEncoding("form", "utf-8");
setEncoding("url", "utf-8");
</cfscript>
<cfcontent type="text/html; charset=utf-8">
I' ve changed the utf-8 to latin2 and even to iso-8859-2 but
didn't help.
Thanks, Aron

I read that it would be the most straightforward way to do
everything in UTF-8 because it handles well special characters so
I've tried to set up a simple testing environment. Besides I use CF
MX7 and my hosting provider creates the dsn for me so I think the
db driver is JDBC but not sure.
1.) In Dreamweaver I created a page with UTF-8 encoding set
the Unicode Normalization Form to "C" and checked the include
unicode signature (BOM) checkbox. This created a page with the meta
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charset=utf-8" />. I've checked the HTTP header with an online
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HTTP/1.1, Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8, Server:
Microsoft-IIS/6.0
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<cfcontent type="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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(<p>őű</p>) into the page and they displayed
well all the time.
4.) I've created a simple MySQL db (MySQL Community Edition
5.0.27-community-nt) on my shared hosting server with phpMyAdmin
with default charset of UTF-8 and choosing utf8_hungarian_ci as
default collation. Then I creted a MyISAM table and the collation
was automatically applied to my varchar field into wich I stored
data with special chars. I've checked the properties of the MySQL
server in MySQL-Front prog and found the following settings under
the Variables tab: character_set_client: utf8,
character_set_connection: utf8, character_set_database: latin1,
character_set_results: utf8, character_set_server: latin1,
character_set_system: utf8, collation_connection: utf8_general_ci,
collation_database: latin1_swedish_ci, collation_server:
latin1_swedish_ci.
5.) I wrote a simple insert form into my page and tried it
using both the content of the form field and a hardcoded string
value and even tried to read back the value of the
#FORM.special_char# variable. In each cases the special Hungarian
chars changed to "q" or "p" letters.
Can anybody see something wrong in the above mentioned or
have an idea to test something else?
I am thinking about to try this same page against a db on my
other hosting providers MySQL server.
Here is the to the form:
http://209.85.117.174/pages/proba/chartest/utf8_1/form.cfm
Thanks, Aron

How to insert text in existing file.?????

how to insert text in existing file.?????
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I tried out with RandomAccessFile class Also.
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I'm trying to insert text data from my html form to access database using servlet and jdbc technologies.
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You're dealing with Unicode, I'd guess, and not ASCII.
I guess I'd have two questions:
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I have searched the forum and found a useful links --http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=530358 about inserting chinese characters to mysql. However, I can't see the chinese characters displayed in the db. The charset and collation of my table are utf8 and utf8_bin respectively. Can anyone help me? Below is my source code
------------------ Servet ---------------------
package test;
import java.io.*;
import java.sql.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
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out.println("<body bgcolor=\"white\">");
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     catch(Exception e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
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doGet(req, res);
public void destroy() {
--------------- Html ------------------
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<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#666666">
<form name="test" method="post" action="testServlet">
<input type="text" name="s1">
<input type="Submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
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</html>
Besides, if I code the chinese characters directly in the servlet page, what is the encoding of the chinese characters by default? Is it related to my OS locale?
Thanks a lot.

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st (test_desc) values ('" + sValue.getBytes("UTF-8")
+ "')");You would be better off using a PreparedStatement and parameters. This will let the MySQL JDBC driver take care of the required encoding.

Insert chinese characters in oracle81 database(with code here)

Hi all,
I have problem on insert chinese characters in oracle8i database(with code below). But no problem when display chinese characters in HTML( not include in the follow program)
Can anyone help me?????
In unix:
Database setting:
charset: ZHT16BIG5
version:8.1.7
In NT 4.0 with SP5:
web/app server setting
webserver: iWs4.0.1
appserver: iAs6.0
Java 1.2.2 with download classes12.zip/nls_charset12.zip
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code:
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import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.sql.*;
import javax.sql.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.lang.*;
import java.lang.reflect.*;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.naming.NamingException;
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Hi, Jenny,
When you said unable to insert to database, do you mean you get all ? marks in the database or garbage characters in the database?
? marks mean there are some byte chop off, and garbage characters mean the bytes are ok, just encoding problem.
--Lichu

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I am expecting to insert chinese characters in an XML file's table.
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First off, here are the specs:
Oracle 8.1.5
JDK 1.2.1
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I can retrieve data with special characters from Oracle by calling the getBytes() method from the ResultSet with all special characters being intact. I am using getBytes because calling getString() would throw the following exception: "java.sql.SQLException(): Fail to convert between UTF8 and UCS2: failUTF8Conv". However, with that value that I just retrieved, or any other data with special characters (unicode) in which I try to insert into Oracle does not get converted properly.
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According to all documentation that I have found, the JDBC driver should not have any problem with converting UCS2 Java Strings to Oracle's UTF8 character set.
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null

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Message was edited by:
Paul M.
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