Re: [flexcoders] How to display special characters like #176; in ComboBox list

2008-12-06 Thread Aaron Hardy
Go to a page like this one: http://www.degraeve.com/reference/specialcharacters.php Copy the actual character (not the HTML representation) and paste it into your code. Bada bing bada boom. Aaron Tracy Spratt wrote: The special character numeric references work fine in Label and Text and

RE: [flexcoders] How to display special characters like #176; in ComboBox list

2008-12-06 Thread Tracy Spratt
Thanks. But I have just learned, this only works with declarative mxml. If you want to crate the special char in Actionscript, you must use the hex/Unicode character, that has the format \u. Tracy -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

[flexcoders] How to display special characters like #176; in ComboBox list

2008-12-04 Thread Tracy Spratt
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