Maybe it's a font problem. Set the server side stuff aside and do a client-rendering sanity-check: If you set the text of a Label to "\uNNNN" where NNNN specifies the Unicode code point of your fancy fraction, does it render properly? - Gordon
________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Hastings Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 5:38 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] vulgar fractions - display as "?" Ben Marchbanks wrote: > Database is set to UTF-8 - at every point where unicode should be set, > it is UTF-8 not if you're getting garbaged chars (?).