Re: [Swftools-common] UTF-8 character

[Patrick Brockmann]

Matthias Kramm wrote:

> On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 07:41:34PM +0200, Patrick Brockmann wrote:
>  
>
> > .text astring text="Réalisation"
> > note the french accent
> > will be with this UTF-8 notation
> > . text astring text="R\xe9alisation"
> >
> > ok but gives Rélisation  (the "a" is missing)
> >    
>
> The above actually parses as "R{\xe9a}lisation" as
> the "a" is considered to be part of the \x, too.
>
> I'm open to syntax suggestions on how to work around this
> one-
> my proposal would be to allow the string to be encoded as
> R\xe9/alisation, with the "/" delimiting the \x command.
> Does somebody have a better idea for a syntax? Otherwise
> I'll implement the "/" version tomorrow.
Hi Matthias,

I could suggest the python syntax which is clear and simple:
|\uXXXX|

An exemple would give:

. text astring text="Ru\00e9alisation"

More information on this syntax can be found at:
http://docs.python.org/tut/node5.html#l2h-3

Patrick