Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / July 2008

I have a requirement for entering international (UTF-8) characters
(specifically German) into a text field for search on a project I'm working on.
This is a Flash Player 9 - targeted project using main AS 2 to build views.  
I'm creating a TextField for input and in that text field I can enter the rest
of the German keys on a German keyboard into the TextField fine, but entering a
Euro symbol via Alt-0128 or Right Alt-E when the keyboard is in German mode,
does not work, and I get a "¬".  I can however create a Euro symbol in Notepad
and copy and paste it into the TextField with no problem.

I've tried the following:

* System.useCodepage = both true and false
* Removing any embedded fonts being applied

This is happening in Windows XP in both IE6 and IE7.  On FF 2 I can also paste
a Euro symbol but cannot enter it.  On Mac OS X in FF 3 and Safari 3 I cannot
enter a Euro but can paste it as well.

Any ideas?