[flexcoders] Loading Unicode values from XML and viewing in Flex components as HTML

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

RE: [flexcoders] Loading Unicode values from XML and viewing in Flex components as HTML

\u00A9 is AS syntax that only means something inside of an AS string literal. In an XML literal, you have to use XML entity syntax, which I believe would be data#x00A9;/data. - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael