Combobox doesn't display greek characters

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Data provider for a Combobox comes from a database with utf-8 collation 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

The dropdown of the combobox displays greek characters correctly, but when 
you select an item through it (and the dropdown closes), the selected item 
isn't displayed. It works fine when i use english characters.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
flex3 builder, windows xp

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 25 Dec 2009 at 2:42