ASCII characters that don't work in drop downs

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Abe - 05 Apr 2005 16:10 GMT

Using IE 5.2.3 on OS X (various versions) I'm seeing an issue in drop
downs when they contain characters with accents and such from the high
end of the ASCII set. When the drop down is opened, instead of showing
the text in question, there is just a blank spot in the list. When that
blank spot is selected, then the text shows properly up as the selected
item.

Has anyone else run into this issue and found a way to resolve it?

Here's an example of some characters which don't show up in the drop
down list:

 (or )
à (or à)
æ (or æ)

Thanks for any help,
Abe

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Abe - 05 Apr 2005 16:15 GMT

ok, I just found a previous thread on here talking about this same
issue but there wasn't a solution. I'm beginning to think there isn't a
work around other than not using a drop down list in these situations.

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Harri Mellin - 05 Apr 2005 18:22 GMT

> ok, I just found a previous thread on here talking about this same
> issue but there wasn't a solution. I'm beginning to think there isn't a
> work around other than not using a drop down list in these situations.

or dump msie for mac (old and discontinued browser)

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Abe - 05 Apr 2005 21:21 GMT

If that was a viable solution I wouldn't have posted here.

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ASCII characters that don't work in drop downs