# 'en rule' and special characters

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/en-rule-and-special-characters/276951
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [December 5, 2008, 11:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/en-rule-and-special-characters/276951 "2008-12-05T11:53:02Z")
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### Author: ![partimer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f1d935/32.png) [@partimer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/partimer)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2008, 11:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/en-rule-and-special-characters/276951/1 "2008-12-05T11:53:02Z")

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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…