How to display special characters in XML driven photo / caption gallery

[zeech26]

Hello!
I have a question about XML in flash.
I have a photo gallery that utilizes XML to call out the photo as well as the caption.
See XML data below:

<image thumb="thumb/FACILITY_TMB_BATH-02.jpg" big="big/FACILITY_LG_BATH-02.jpg" title="Ogni cottage è dotato di un bagno elegante" />


This is the AS that calls for the photos and captions (The whole script is very long, so I am only going to annote the part that calls for the XML): It goes like this:

xml.load("xml/io/io_resort_gallery01.xml");
for (var i = 0; i<numOfItems; i++) {
var t = this.attachMovie("item", "item"+i, i+1);
}

My problem is that the data won’t display special characters like “è or é or ñ”
I am worried because I am using multiple languages, and as it is I am having to remove important characters from translations...

I also have a second AS that calls for XML data for body copy which which works great, displays all characters in multiple languages, and allows HTML code to be used:

XML Data:
<texts>
<text><![CDATA[<b><font size="14">Il lusso fa parte dell'alloggio...</font></b>
Con 15 lussuosi cottage, siamo in grado....]]></text>

ActionScript:
stop();
my_xml = new XML();
my_xml.load("xml/io/io_resort_text_galleries.xml");
my_xml.onLoad = my_function;
my_xml.ignoreWhite = 1;

function my_function() {
acc_mc.accomodations.html = true;
acc_mc.accomodations.htmlText = my_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
}

Any idea on how to get the XML for the photo gallery to display all characters?
This is also going to have to accomodate russian and Japanese so I am bit nervous...
Thanks for your help in Advance!
From Santa Cruz, CA
Zeech26

[evan]

smack me if you tried this already but:

Can you set the formatting of the text box where the xml will go to use an embedded font?

[zeech26]

Evan, I had not tried that, and it seemed like a great idea until it didn't work!
Thanks for your response. I think it has to do with the coding of the XML, but i'm still stumped...
Help!
thanks
zeech

[punstc]

Have you tried urlencoding your special characters? I know using text files you need to do this to see special characters it's most likely the same with xml. here's a link to a chart that has all the codes.

http://i-technica.com/whitestuff/urlencodechart.html

If your not familiar with urlencoding just put the code the chart says in place of the letter.

[zeech26]

"Have you tried urlencoding your special characters? I know using text files you need to do this to see special characters it's most likely the same with xml. here's a link to a chart that has all the codes."

I tired that, it displayed the character as written in the URL code unfortunately.
I am thinking that I have to incorporate CDATA in the XML file, but I am not sure how to do that. with this type of gallery.

Thanks for your help, that is great for future reference.
Anybody else have any ideas?
Thanks again,
zeech

[zeech26]

Evan, I figured it out.
I added this to the actionscript:
system.useCodepage = true;

And then, like you suggested, I went back and embedded the characters (latin)
cheers!
zeech