Sorry Alen, I clearly need to read all responses before I reply. Daddy Alex said "post the code" and I tripped over my own feet to comply ;)
The hex / unicode solution is the ticket. Thanks everyone! Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Harui Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 1:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [flexcoders] RE: How to display special characters like ° in ComboBox list Be nice now. Tracy, the issue is that in the declarative example we are parsing the XML, but in the AS example, we are just parsing text and not XML so the \uXXXX format is needed there. From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alen Balja Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 10:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] RE: How to display special characters like ° in ComboBox list Did you try with unicode chars like I told you? \u00B0 <- this is for the small circle (deegre) _aHC2SODP = [{data:"0", label:"0 \u00B0F"},{data:"20", label:"2 \u00B0F"}]; On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Tracy Spratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: Aargh, the shoemaker's children are barefoot. I am creating a static dataProvider for the combobox: _aHC2SODP = [{data:"0", label:"0 °F"},{data:"20", label:"2 °F"}]; //looking for the "degree" symbol But the above renders literally. I have discovered that building a string in actionscript and then assigning it to a Label.text also does *not* work: var sTemp:String = "0 °F"; lbltest.text = sTemp; The entity code renders literally. But declaratively, the degree symbol renders as desired: <mx:Label text="0 °F" /> So one sure solution is to create my static dataProviders declaratively. So I guess my question changes to "Is there some way to do this in AS?" Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Alex Harui Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 12:01 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [flexcoders] RE: How to display special characters like ° in ComboBox list Ha! I've always wanted to say this to you: "Post your code". :-) Isn't that XML syntax that won't work in a CDATA block of ActionScript? From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 4:13 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [flexcoders] How to display special characters like ° in ComboBox list The special character numeric references work fine in Label and Text and such, but are interpreted literally in a ComboBox's drop list. Any sugestions? Tracy
