Displaying HTML character entities in JEditorPane

Question

Hi,
I have noticed that when displaying HTML character entity references in a JEditorPane it will show some of them, e.g. © for copyright symbol but not others e.g. ’ for "curly" single quote.
Is there any way to get JEditorPane to show all (most?) of them?

Answer 1

Create a class that extends ComboBox and override the
updateDisplayList and measureText functions. Then use that new
ComboBox in your code:
<local:HtmlComboBox .. xmlns:local="components.*".>
<local:itemRenderer>
<mx:Component>
<mx:Text htmlText="{data.label}" />
</mx:Component>
</local:itemRenderer>
</local:HtmlComboBox>
Put this into a folder called "components" and name the file
HtmlComboBox.as
package components
import mx.controls.ComboBox;
import flash.text.TextLineMetrics;
public class HtmlComboBox extends ComboBox
public function HtmlComboBox()
super();
override protected function
updateDisplayList(unscaledWidth:Number, unscaledHeight:Number):void
super.updateDisplayList(unscaledWidth,unscaledHeight);
var s:String = textInput.text;
textInput.htmlText = s;
override public function
measureText(text:String):TextLineMetrics
return measureHTMLText(text);
}