Bug 21 - Ming doesn't handle charsets correctly

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Benjamin Otte 2007-06-06 09:09:19 EDT

I checked this for script code (Push action), but it's probably relevant to all
contents of Flash files:

Strings in Flash < 6 seem to be encoded as Latin-1. In Flash >= 6 strings are
probably encoded as UTF-8.

Ming always writes UTF-8 when creating Flash files. It would be nice if it did
something sane for Flash < 6.

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Klaus Rechert 2007-07-10 17:11:18 EDT

i can not find a place within actioncompiler code where a
utf8-check/conversion/.. happens. ming takes a char * from the parser and
writes strlen() bytes from this pointer.
could you provide a simple example please ?

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Benjamin Otte 2007-07-11 02:17:11 EDT

Easiest example is with makeswf, but you can of course get the same effect with
every C function that takes a string. Just create input that is not pure ASCII,
like this:
trace ("München");
Then compile it once for version 5 and for version 6 and look at the produced
output.

Apart from actionscript, other examples are SWFDisplayItem_setName and
SWFMovie_addExport.

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Klaus Rechert 2007-07-16 08:40:50 EDT

Bug is verfied. But will not be fixed before the next release:

First generating SWF >= 6 should be default and second such bugs can only be
fixed if movie versioning is completed.

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strk@keybit.net 2010-05-21 05:37:28 EDT

Also, when producing the ref myself I see a single KerningCount:0
Is this a bug with listswf or ?

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strk@keybit.net 2010-05-21 05:41:00 EDT

(In reply to comment #4)

Also, when producing the ref myself I see a single KerningCount:0
Is this a bug with listswf or ?

Sorry, wrong bug , this was meant for #95

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strk@keybit.net 2010-11-16 05:18:18 EST

Is this still an issue ?
Is benjamin suggesting we recode from UTF-8 to Latin1 when saving to SWF<6 ?
(I wouldn't go there really... as how do you know if input is UTF-8 or latin1
already ?)