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Dear justabovemaine maine!

> I tried using char(137) but just get a blank string.  Any recommendations which font to use?  i tried, ylabel(char(137),'fontname','arial') but w/ no luck.

Damn. It works well in Matlab 5.3 and 6.5.
Now some characters are not longer available, which is not a problem of the font. Try in the command window:
  char(32:255)
The results differ between 6.5 and 2009a even for the same font.

After seeking the Matlab doc (you've done already, I assume...), I'm disappointed. The best solution, I can find is:
  ylabel('^0/_{00}', 'Interpreter', 'TeX')
The \textperthousand command does not work with the LaTeX interpreter, because the textcomp package seems to be missing. To be true, I'm quite confused by the LaTeX interpreter feature, although the TeX interpreter is really clear to me.

Good luck, Jan