Get "arrow" symbol in textField AS3

I have a textField, which has font face to "Arial", its dynamic. It also takes htmlText. I am u开发者_StackOverflow中文版sing XML to send data to the textField.

My problem is that I want an arrow "→" in the textField. I have tried embedding "Symbol" font in the swf containing textField but its showing a Register sign.

I'm really stuck with this, any help would be a life-saver!

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As mentioned above, the → and → both work. Just make sure the characters are embedded.

To be clear, you xml would look a bit like this:

<p>This is a &#8594; arrow character</p>
<p>This is another &#x2192; arrow character</p>