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Loading Special Characters In Flash
- By Jacob Shaw
- Published 01/26/2010
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Sometimes it is an issue to load such character as & if you read dynamic data from text file. The problem is that & is a special character in flash which means beginning of the variable. When flash reads from text file and comes to & it just thinks that current the variable has ended and a new one begins.
Such special characters have to be URL encoded. URL encoding replaces the alphanumeric character with the hexadecimal combination which represents that character.
which means you have to substitute & with %26 ,this should resolve the issue in most of the cases. Below comes the table of URL encoding.
Such special characters have to be URL encoded. URL encoding replaces the alphanumeric character with the hexadecimal combination which represents that character.
which means you have to substitute & with %26 ,this should resolve the issue in most of the cases. Below comes the table of URL encoding.
Use this URL Encoding table for special characters:
| Character | Code | Character | Code |
| |
%26%23169; | t | %74 |
| |
%26%23174; | u | %75 |
| |
%E2%84%A2 | v | %76 |
| backspace | %08 | w | %77 |
| tab | %09 | x | %78 |
| linefeed | %0A | y | %79 |
| creturn | %0D | z | %7A |
| space | %20 | { | %7B |
| ! | %21 | | | %7C |
| " | %22 | } | %7D |
| # | %23 | ~ | %7E |
| $ | %24 | |
%A2 |
| % | %25 | |
%A3 |
| & | %26 | |
%A5 |
| ' | %27 | | | %A6 |
| ( | %28 | |
%A7 |
| ) | %29 | |
%AB |
| * | %2A | |
%AC |
| + | %2B | |
%AD |
| , | %2C | |
%B0 |
| - | %2D | |
%B1 |
| . | %2E | |
%B2 |
| / | %2F | , | %B4 |
| 0 | %30 | |
%B5 |
| 1 | %31 | |
%BB |
| 2 | %32 | |
%BC |
| 3 | %33 | |
%BD |
| 4 | %34 | |
%BF |
| 5 | %35 | A` | %C0 |
| 6 | %36 | A | %C1 |
| 7 | %37 | A^ | %C2 |
| 8 | %38 | A~ | %C3 |
| 9 | %39 | A | %C4 |
| : | %3A | A | %C5 |
| ; | %3B | |
%C6 |
| < | %3C | C | %C7 |
| = | %3D | E` | %C8 |
| > | %3E | E | %C9 |
| ? | %3F | E^ | %CA |
| @ | %40 | E | %CB |
| A | %41 | I` | %CC |
| B | %42 | I | %CD |
| C | %43 | I^ | %CE |
| D | %44 | I | %CF |
| E | %45 | |
%D0 |
| F | %46 | N~ | %D1 |
| G | %47 | O` | %D2 |
| H | %48 | O | %D3 |
| I | %49 | O^ | %D4 |
| J | %4A | O~ | %D5 |
| K | %4B | O | %D6 |
| L | %4C | |
%D8 |
| M | %4D | U` | %D9 |
| N | %4E | U | %DA |
| O | %4F | U^ | %DB |
| P | %50 | U | %DC |
| Q | %51 | Y | %DD |
| R | %52 | |
%DE |
| S | %53 | |
%DF |
| T | %54 | a` | %E0 |
| U | %55 | a | %E1 |
| V | %56 | a^ | %E2 |
| W | %57 | a~ | %E3 |
| X | %58 | a | %E4 |
| Y | %59 | a | %E5 |
| Z | %5A | |
%E6 |
| [ | %5B | c | %E7 |
| \ | %5C | e` | %E8 |
| ] | %5D | e | %E9 |
| ^ | %5E | e^ | %EA |
| _ | %5F | e | %EB |
| ` | %60 | i` | %EC |
| a | %61 | i | %ED |
| b | %62 | i^ | %EE |
| c | %63 | i | %EF |
| d | %64 | |
%F0 |
| e | %65 | n~ | %F1 |
| f | %66 | o` | %F2 |
| g | %67 | o | %F3 |
| h | %68 | o^ | %F4 |
| i | %69 | o~ | %F5 |
| j | %6A | o | %F6 |
| k | %6B | |
%F7 |
| l | %6C | |
%F8 |
| m | %6D | u` | %F9 |
| n | %6E | u | %FA |
| o | %6F | u^ | %FB |
| p | %70 | u | %FC |
| q | %71 | y | %FD |
| r | %72 | |
%FE |
| s | %73 | y | %FF |
Additional information
The TAB character (URL encoded with %09) is not supported in Flash or HTML. In Flash and HTML, the TAB key is reserved for switching focus between form fields.