# Special characters (mdash) not properly displaying

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-mdash-not-properly-displaying/251995>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 14, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-mdash-not-properly-displaying/251995 "2008-02-14T18:17:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![ewon15](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@ewon15](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ewon15)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-mdash-not-properly-displaying/251995/1 "2008-02-14T18:17:11Z")

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I have a dynamic text box on the stage that I load text into from and XML doc. I have it set to render as HTML and have embedded the font. Things like apostrophes, quotations and ampersands all display properly using the HTML character references (', ", &, etc). However, when I try to make an m dash (or any type of dash for that matter) it does not display the actual dash, only the character reference (—).

Let me know if you need any code form me… here’s the link to the piece i’ve created. [www.rainnetdev.com/clients/jh/portfolio.php](http://www.rainnetdev.com/clients/jh/portfolio.php)

Please help! Much thanks…