On Windows you can use charmap.exe to find all sorts of special characters and their unicode values (which may or may not be different/available, depending on which font you’re using).

The character you want is “Not Equal To”, and is U+2260: ࣔ

Peter

myString=myString.replace(String.fromCharCode(128), "€");

And oddly enough, this works…
Instead of a weird square character, I get the nice ‘€’ one!

textField.text = "€";

That will display the literal string in the text field, however

works fine.

I hadn’t considered htmlText though, good idea. It should work regardless.

How is it not working?

If I try this in my MXML document it seems to work:

<mx:CurrencyFormatter id="cf" currencySymbol="&#8364;" precision="2" />
<mx:Text htmlText="{cf.format(100)}" />

Also, if I load a remote document (content.txt) it looks like it parses that € character properly (as long as I set the htmlText property and not the text property). Observe:

<mx:HTTPService id="getText" url="content.txt" resultFormat="text" />
<mx:Text condenseWhite="true" creationComplete="getText.send()">
    <mx:htmlText>{getText.lastResult}</mx:htmlText>
</mx:Text>

And my content.txt file looks like:

<p>I'm a big fancy eurosymbol: &#8364;</p>

Is that roughly what you were looking for, or did I totally misunderstand?

Peter (who hopes the formatting for this turned out)

I’ve been desperately trying to create a currency formatter which gets it’s currency symbol via a remote object call to display a € (Euro symbol, char code 8364). Can’t get it to work… all I get is a â (a with circumflex).

Your method works fine if I do this:

But not if I do this:

var cf : CurrencyFormatter = new CurrencyFormatter();
cf.currencySymbol = "€"

(and because of that, loading a string containing “&#8364″ obviously wouldn’t work either)

You would have to do this (which doesn’t work so well when you load your data externally, it’s not feasible to scan through all text looking for entities):

var cf : CurrencyFormatter = new CurrencyFormatter();
cf.currencySymbol = String.fromCharCode(8364);

As it is I have given up, other currencies are written with their three-letter abbreviations anyway, so writing EUR 33.00 is perfectly fine. However, it would look so much better with a proper €. If you have any similiar ideas of how to get special characters to work in an even more general way I would be very interested.

But as I know we can directly use Unicode chars without any need of any kind of replacement if you have the right font.