Loading euro sign from external .txt file

[cbweb]

Hi,

Having problems getting euro sign to display when loaded from external .txt
file into dynamic text field using:

var myLv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
myLv.load("test.txt");

myLv.onLoad = function (success) {
if(success){
//trace(myLv.myvar);
my_txt.htmlText=myLv.myvar;
}
else{
trace("not loaded");
}
};

tried saving the test.txt file as UTF-8 no joy, also the myvar above needs to display a bunch of text with a scrollbar, peculiar things happen such as, euro sign doesn't display, or, if I embed the font used, with say Arial, text doesn't display properly, if device fonts are chosen without embed, text displayed doesn't display the euro sign, '€' the common way to code the euro in html doesn't get recognised in .txt file?

thanks,

Colm

[Cappez]

Hi,

I was looking for the solution but couldn't find it anywhere. Just figured it out for those who need it (AS3):

if (myString.charCodeAt(0) == 128) { // first character is a euro symbol
myString = "\u20AC" + myString.substr(1, myString.length); //replace first character with euro symbol, keep rest of the String the way it is.
}
myTextField.text = myString;

This assumes the euro sign is the first character in the string (position 0), but you of course can modify the above to replace it anywhere in the string.