'en rule' and special characters

Has anyone ever experienced trying to import the ‘en rule’ (longer dash) and any other special characters into a dynamic text field in as3?

I’ve got a text editor that should populate with text from a database and most items work - but the en rule doesn’t. The odd thing is that you can ‘write’ the char when you’re editting the text (in this case, alt + 0150 on a PC).

I’ve tried the replacing the character with the ascii – in the db but it still gets ignore - (& # 150 ; ) and I have set embedFonts = true; of the text areas?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards to all…