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Why doesn't Flash support international characters on Linux?
I would like to bring attention to the fact that Flash Plugin on Linux does not support international characters properly. See this bug report in Adobe Bugs: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-40
I hope that some day we non-english speaking users can enter and edit our own language text on Flash enabled web sites too.
Even simple iso-latin-1 characters enter incorrectly.
The bug has been assigned to Edwin Wong for a long time now.
-Pete
I hope that some day we non-english speaking users can enter and edit our own language text on Flash enabled web sites too.
Even simple iso-latin-1 characters enter incorrectly.
The bug has been assigned to Edwin Wong for a long time now.
-Pete
I’m slightly unoptimistic about this.
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Inappropriate?My guess is Edwin Wong doesn't work for Adobe anymore and nobody noticed. Very sad for Edwin -
Inappropriate?There has been some progress reports lately and it seems that for some countries the problem might be addressed in future release. This naturally does not mean that the major penetration of Flash players will support it for 2-3 years.
I’m delayed
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Inappropriate?As far as I see the problem has been solved in the latest beta. When it gets out as final I expect it to b in widespread use.
I’m ok
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Inappropriate?I guess it depends whether you are a power user ready to install new beta or a project manager trying to sell the idea of using Flash to Mr. Customer, Sir.
I see no reason why the new beta would skip ahead of the normal Flash penetration chart [1]. EDIT: But seeing the Flash 10 statistics give a slightly more optimistic view. In my opinion the future Flash 11 might be widespread Q4 2010.
[1] http://www.adobe.com/products/player_...1 Comment
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This solves the problem
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I am a power user indeed (as a higher than windoze percentage on Linux), so the beta solves it for me and everyone around. But as I mentioned release is required for most of the users.
The reason to defeat the chart is the new Firefox version, which actually _warn_ the average joe to refresh flash when there's newer available. Let us come back a month after release to see when 10.1 going to be widespread.
But anyway, Adobe cannot really do more than fix the bug. They cannot magically make John Does to upgrade. What more do you expect from them? How would you get satisfaction? ;-) -
Inappropriate?And temporary hacks can solve it in the meantime, converting back unicode gibberish to encoded characters.
