Euro Symbol from Dynamic Text

Another solution that I just found out, even simpler... well it worked

In the XML replace the "€" with this code €

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

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

Hi Brian,

Maybe is a bit late for an answer, but I stumble upon the same problem, but worked it out in a different way, that I hope it will you and others about this issue.

I wanted also to display the euro sign, but thw symbol is not beeing recognized by Flash although the font that I use, has the symbol.

So I did the following:

- In the XML, replace the euro sign by a keyword, lets say: "eurosign";

- Possibly you will display the value in your SWF file, from a String variable. In this case, you have to detect the keyword and replace it by the character "€" itself, like this:

myString = myString.split("eurosign").join("€");

This did the trick for me.

I don't think you need to use special XML replacements or special code. Flash really likes unicode so if your XML files are saved/create as UTF-8 that will go a long way toward helping. I made a small file called euro.xml that contained the following:

<price>

<![CDATA[€129,00]]>

</price>

Hope the forums don't mangle that.

Then I create a fla and put a dynamic text box on the stage called value. Don't forget to embed the font. In my case I did Basic Latin and then in the "Include these characters" field I added the euro sign. Then I used this code:

var home:MovieClip=this;

var xml:XML=new XML();

xml.ignoreWhite=true;

xml.onLoad=function(success){

home.value.text=this.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue;

}

xml.load("euro.xml");

And, hey Bobs your uncle. It shows just fine.