Euro Symbol from Dynamic Text

Question

Sorry, me again! I understand that this seems to be a pretty common problem. My euro symbol isn't showing up in the XML text I bring into Flash. I've worked with our developer to replace the euro symbol with "EURO" in the XML so that at least it shows up in Flash and I'm trying to use actionscript to change it back to the euro symbol. I found some script here (see the 2nd post) and I thought it looked promising but it's not working for me. Have I adapted it correctly?
function replaceSpecChars(txtField):Void {
    for (var i = 0; i < txtField.text.length; i++) {
        var euro:String = "EURO";
        var euroPos:Number = txtField.text.indexOf(euro);
        if (euroPos > -1) {
            txtField.replaceText(euroPos, euroPos+3, "€");
replaceSpecChars(newsContent.articleHeadline.text);

Answer 1

Hi Brian,
Maybe this is a bit late, but I stumble in the same question and droped here, in your question, trying to get some clues. Hope my solution will help you or others with the same issue. It's not the ideal, but it's simple.
I stumbled upon the same question as you did, although I used a font that had the "€". Tried every possible code in the XML file, but nothing.
So I did one other thing. The values that I want to display are stored in a String variable, so there's a simple method of placing the euro sign where you want.
I did the following:
- In the XML file I replaced the euro sign by a keyword. Lets say: "eurosign";
- Then in the actionscript, I detect where "eurosign" is and replaced it with the "€" like this:
myPrice = myPrice.split("euros").join("€");
This did the trick for me.
Hope it helps
Message was edited by: leoserra - Sorry about the double entry, the first one returned error, but was saved :S