This is an issue since the Flash was invented. Your best bet is to convert HTML entities to unicode characters. You can do that in the runtime right after you fetch the data from the server, or you can do it on the server.
If you're doing it in Flex runtime make use of String.replace, and RegExp. You can just Google to get the unicode equivalent of the character you want to display. Cheers, Alen --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The special character numeric references work fine in Label and Text and > such, but are interpreted literally in a ComboBox's drop list. > > Any sugestions? > > Tracy >