Forcing Unicode Character Set

Good morning!

I've got a problem.

I've designed an ASP page that extracts text from a database and sends the information to a Flash movie. The problem is that when the text has international characters, Flash doesn't interpret the characters right.

I originally thought that this was a Flash problem, but it turns out that the ASP isn't sending the text in Unicode format.

I need to force ASP to use Unicode (encoded using either UTF-8 or UTF-16) or use a Unicode escape sequence to include any international character.

Is there an equivilent in ASP to the following PHP code:

myText = utf8_encode(myText)

If not, how do I force ASP to send the text correctly?

Please help!

Thanks in advance!!

check this http://www.asp101.com/articles/flash/index.asp out.
values need to be in the querystring and need to use server.URLendcode

example with complete sourcecode at the botom. (Haven't tested it but it looks good)

Yeah... my string is URL encoded, which makes this all the more perplexing.

If you go to the following URLs you'll see what I mean:

This is the ASP file that generates the string:

http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/LF/Francais/flash/home/news_ticker_data.asp

As you can see, it's URL encoded.

This is the result:

http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/LF/Francais/home.asp

You'll notice that the ticker on the left-hand side is not displaying the international characters correctly.

I've tried everything to fix this problem. I tried using Flash's built-in unescape function and that doesn't work either. I've been on countless Flash support websites, and no one can help me.

This is driving me insane!!:confused:

I'm not sure what you did, but it looks like it's working now to me... are you still having problems with this? :)

If you did solve it, please post your solution as well, it might help someone else! :)

Indeed seems to work. Post it up here.

I noticed yesterday it showed a </html> and wanted to point it out (gotgot). I see you stripped of the html and just printed the text.

I had similar problem (now solved):
http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=144824#post144824