Using the JSFL FLFile.write and UTF8

[hangalot]

and i had to re-subscribe

[jjbilly]

Thanks, I'll do the same.

[nikomh]

Originally Posted by barklund

Hi,

I've created a JSFL script within the Flash IDE - it is thus a UTF8-encoded file. I want to write new files with UTF8-encoding - but the FLfile.write does not add the three necessary UTF8-file header (%EF%BB%BF) to the beginning of the file. I cannot add these in front of the string, because this 3-byte sequence is not valid UTF8-characters.

Has anyone had this problem before?

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Morten Barklund

this might work....
have a txt-file in the same directory that has unicode characters in the beginnin and save it from notepad to utf-8 format.

copy that file to a new file with FLfile.copy() command
then instead of creating the file, just add to it with FLfile.write() command.

i did manage to add utf-8 characters to the file this way, but it does not seem to work allways ??

[ezlife]

I just saw this post years later
Anyway, in case you want to save out in UTF8 directly through JSFL
you can write your string buffer to the output panel as an intermediate step.
Then use

fl.outputPanel.save(filename,false,false); //UTF-8 format

if you use fl.write it will save the file in ANSI format.