data_type_mapping.txt

From c++ to Actionscript

bool		Boolean	ByteArray.readBoolean
uint8_t		uint	ByteArray.readUnsignedByte
uint16_t	uint	ByteArray.readUnsignedShort
uint32_t	uint	ByteArray.readUnsignedInt
uint64_t	Number	ByteArray.readDouble			pending
int8_t		int		ByteArray.readByte
int16_t		int		ByteArray.readShort
int32_t		int		ByteArray.readInt
int64_t		Number	ByteArray.readDouble			pending
float		Number 	ByteArray.readFloat
double		Number 	ByteArray.readDouble
std::string	String	ByteArray.readUTFBytes
std::vector	Vector	
std::list	Vector
std::set	Vector
std::map	Object


How transfer the string between C++ server and Actionscript client correctly?

On server side, we set the locale of the C++ server and it's host operating system
to zh_CN.UTF-8, then all multi-byte string are encoded in UTF-8. We don't use
wchar_t in Linux, because it occupies four bytes, it's wasteful. In this way, a C++
string is marshaled as a UTF-8 byte array, then the byte array was sent to client.

On client side, the String was written as an UTF-8 bytes to a byte stream.

So, the server and client side both receive and send UTF-8 byte stream when 
transforming string. It's very consistent and works fine indeed.