Changing colors in a UILabel.text with script no longer works in 3.0.8

[TokyoDan]

NEVERMIND. I found the solution here: http://www.tasharen.com/forum/index.php?topic=7125.msg33674#msg33674

I just upgraded from 2.7 to 3.0.8 without many problems. There is one left I can't solve…

I used to dynamically color my text in script like this:

aUILabel.text = "[00a2ea]I am [00a2ea]Joe";   // "I AM" is red, "Joe" is light Blue

While the color of "Joe" is light blue as expected,  "I am" is displayed as black.  I can't get it to display in red. What has changed?