Support for non unicode characters

[alicamat]

Hi,

I have purchased XML News Ticker v3.

I would like to use it on a website in Turkish which includes non unicode characters. On the HTML page iso-8859-9 encoding is used.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-9" />

Currently some of the characters entered into the XML file are not displayed and some others cause the swf file to stop displaying content.

I am not sure if you will be able to see these characters correctly here in the forum but here they are : Şş İi Öö Çç Ğğ Üü

I will appreciate your support.

Thanks,

Ali

[Razvan]

Hello, please read this

[alicamat]

Thank you for your quick response. I actually came straight into this thread for support and did not realise that there is a general FAQ. My appologies for not having read the instructions.

Now that I have read and actually tried them, my problem is still not resolved.

I am able to display properly the special characters that I write to the flash objects. The problem is with the News text that is read from the data.xml file. The special characters read in from the xml file are still not displayed correctly. Not only that but it also makes the flash not to display anything. It is item 8 in the document that you have pointed out.

I edit the xml with Notepad and I save it as any file with .xml extension and with UTF-8 encoding. I have tried the other encodings as well like Unicode and ANSI withouth any success.

Do you have any further suggestions ?

Thank you for your support.

Ali

[alicamat]

Hi,

I have managed to make it work.

I am sharing the info for the benefit of others.

As indicated in the above document, embeding the special characters was necessary for the mc4 text field. Also after updating the data.xml with notepad, it was necessary to save it in UTF-8 format.

After taking these two actions I was able to display the special characters correctly in the news section.

In my case, I also made an additional mistake of embeding the special <> chars in the text to isolate the special characters so that I could easily identify then. I believe this might have broken the xml structure. I have also corrected this mistake.

Thank you for the support.

Ali

[Razvan]

Hi, I'm glad you finally solved this and I appreciate for sharing a common mistake and the solution.

Cheers

[Ciao121]

Hi have problem displaying accented letters (ì è etc). I saved file in UTF. Any idea?