In a recent project, I wanted to load the Unicode values for special characters from an external XML file. I wanted these values to show up in a label or text box using something like label.htmlText = "\ul00A9", which would produce the copyright symbol. However, when I loaded the values from a simple XML node, the resulting label showed the literal value"\ul00A9" instead of the copyright symbol. I created a test application and found that local XML vars work and local Unicode strings work, but not loaded Unicode values from XML. I have sample URL for my test application (right-click view source) and the code below:
URL: http://thanksmister.com/xmlunicode/index.html Flex Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="absolute" creationComplete="charXML.send();" height="210" width="393" viewSourceURL="srcview/index.html"> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ private function serviceListener():void { var tempXML:XMLList = charXML.lastResult.character as XMLList; var localXML:XML = <character> <data>\u00A9</data> <label>Inverted Exclamation Mark</label> </character>; test1.htmlText = localXML.data; test2.htmlText = "\u00A9"; // string test3.htmlText = tempXML.data; } ]]> </mx:Script> <mx:HTTPService url="data/test.xml" id="charXML" resultFormat="e4x" result="serviceListener()" /> <mx:Canvas width="291" height="164" backgroundColor="#ffffff" x="51" y="19"> <mx:Label text="Copyright Local XML:" x="10" y="10"/> <mx:Label text="" x="201" y="10" id="test1"/> <mx:Label text="Copyright Text String:" x="10" y="59"/> <mx:Label text="" x="201" y="59" id="test2"/> <mx:Label text="Copyright Imported XML:" x="10" y="117"/> <mx:Label text="" x="201" y="117" id="test3"/> </mx:Canvas> </mx:Application> External XML file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <specialChars> <character> <data>\u00A9</data> <label>Copyright sign</label> </character> </specialChars> Thanks, Michael -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
