Alekkus ยป Empowering social media with Flash » unicode http://alekkus.com/blog flex consultant + social media specialist Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:54:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Flex tutorial: Convert unicode (UTF16) to text, and vice verse http://alekkus.com/blog/2009/02/flex-tutorial-convert-unicodes-to-text-and-vice-verse/ http://alekkus.com/blog/2009/02/flex-tutorial-convert-unicodes-to-text-and-vice-verse/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:30:52 +0000 Alekkus http://alekkus.com/blog/?p=206 In contrary to most mashup api services that uses UTF8, Twitter returns non-Latin characters encoded in UTF16. After googling, seems like many people have issues with converting UTF16 encoded characters to proper text and vice verse. There might be other better ways, but here’s what I have done. Feel free to comment.

A UTF converter that I always used is this.

Demo:
Unicode Converter (view source enabled)

Source Codes
Right-click on application to view source.

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