Em Dash in Flash

[MikoLone]

I use and XML document that sends text to an flash movie and displays it in a text box. I need to put em-dashes into the text but it doesn't interpet the html — nor does it interpret the unicode \u2014 either.

How can I get em-dashes into the text. Help!

Thanks

[Jesse]

try using the escape function to get the exscape sequence for the character you want, then unescape the string when you pull it back in:
trace(escape("X"));
// where X is the character you want to know the escape sequence of

[MikoLone]

I tried that and unfortunately it didn't work. It did give me an excape sequence but 1 I couldn't type an em dash into the code.

eg. trace(escape("--"));

The result was "%2D%2D" but then I stuck that into a textbox and the result was %2d%2d. Is it impossible to add em-dashes into flash. Seems like they should have thought of that. Guess not. Thank you for replying.

[fgf]

trace(unescape("%2d%2d"));

results in --

You escape stuff before you send it and unescape once you've recieved it. Its the unescaped stuff you should be putting in the text box.

fgf

[MikoLone]

Ok, The escape/unescape thing was wonderful to learn about but I still couldn't figure out how to get an em-dash into the code.

We found this thread on the macromedia site.

http://webforums.macromedia.com/flash/messageview.cfm?catid=194&threadid=413594&highlight_key=y&keyword1=dash

We put the line

System.useCodePage=true;

in our source code and then simple pasted in a em dash into the text file and it worked. Thanks for your help guys. Have fun.

:D

[Jesse]

Yeah everyone's been talking abou this since FLash MX came out but I still forget about it when ppl ask such questions :)