Thanks. But I have just learned, this only works with declarative mxml. If you want to crate the special char in Actionscript, you must use the hex/Unicode character, that has the format \uXXXX.
Tracy -----Original Message----- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Hardy Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 7:43 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] How to display special characters like ° in ComboBox list Go to a page like this one: http://www.degraeve.com/reference/specialcharacters.php Copy the actual character (not the HTML representation) and paste it into your code. Bada bing bada boom. Aaron Tracy Spratt 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 > > ------------------------------------ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links