flex localization equals character

I'm having problems placing an equals character in my locale file

I have to do something like this:

#greater value

greater_value = the value must be ( >= ) than the corresponding value 

but when the thing is displayed开发者_如何学编程 in the ui the text after the second equals is missed

how do you place an equals character in a flex locale file?

edit: I have already used, escape characters, ascci code, html codes and unicode unicodes.

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You can use unicode character representation:

greater_value = the value must be ( >\u003D ) than the corresponding value

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I dont know why but the unicode representation didnt work for me, what I finally did was to use the solution proposed by harry ninh, using the StringUtil.substitute.

There is a little bit tricky way to overcome this problem:

greater_value = the value must be ( {0} ) than the corresponding value

Then in your AS code, use StringUtil.substitute(localeString, ">=");