#12 International Characters parsed incorrectly

[Anonymous]

Data with international characters such as 'ñ' is not
parsed correctly; the whole data gets corrupted.

[Alessandro Crugnola]

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do you mean from PHP to AS or AS to PHP?
can you provide me an example?

p.s. remember that if you're passing data from php,
everything must be UTF-8 format (and dont' use useCodePage =
true in flash)

[Anonymous]

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Tip: Use the PHP <a
href="http://php.net/utf8_encode">utf8_encode</a> to encode
data before sending it to Flash. PHP also provides a <a
href="http://php.net/utf8_decode">utf8_decode</a> function.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I had the same issue. Check out the "Revised calcLength()
function" posting which fix the problem for me.

[afriedel]

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revised calcLength() didn't work my case.

As workarround you may escape the strings containing the
international characters before serializing them.

as:
serialize(escape(var)) ...
php:
utf8_decode(urldecode(unserialize(utf8_decode(var)))) ...

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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This may be related to the utf8_encode php function. This
function needs to be called when data is being serialized
and sent to flash, for example:

echo "&output=" . urlencode(utf8_encode(serialize($pages)));

However, besure not to call utf8_encode twice! If your data
is from a database and already encoded in utf8 then you will
see problems.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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hi. With this change, the caracters start to be parsed ok. It´s just a sugestion and I´m not 100% sure of no colateral effects, but worked for me.

case "s":
var len_end:uint = data.indexOf(":", Serializer.c+2);
var len:uint = data.substring(Serializer.c+2, len_end); trace(len+','+len_end);
Serializer.c = len_end+2;

result = data.substr(Serializer.c, len);
Serializer.c += (len+2);

if(Serializer.pattern.test(result)){
result = new Date(result)
}
break;

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[Nobody/Anonymous]

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See the prior Bug Post #1433083 to correct this error.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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unserializing special characters presents a similar problem that calcLength() does not fix. The fix I am using is in the function getCStringLenght:

// change from 128 to 255 to allow special characters
if (cstr.charCodeAt (i + startIndex) > 255){
j = j - 1
}

[Nobody/Anonymous]

hallo ,

read all that - did fix my prob with french and spanish chars neatly .. but what about the €uro sign ? cant get ist working - receive always questionmarks after deserializing