# Asian characters in URL

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/asian-characters-in-url/320943>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 6, 2011, 11:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/asian-characters-in-url/320943 "2011-04-06T11:56:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![typhoon101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@typhoon101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/typhoon101)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 11:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/asian-characters-in-url/320943/1 "2011-04-06T11:56:14Z")

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Hi.

I have the following AS3 code attached to a click event of a movie clip.

```auto
var url:String;
url = "/hkhk/sec/&#22522;&#37329;&#36039;&#26009;/&#24066;&#22580;&#36264;&#21218;&#20998;&#26512;/&#35222;&#20687;/index.htm";
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
try {
	navigateToURL(request, '_self');
} catch (e:Error) {
	trace("Error occurred!");
}

```

Clicking the movie clip opens a web page with the following URL:  
[http://domain/hkhk/sec/](http://domain/hkhk/sec/)???/???/??/index.htm

Is there any way to include Asian characters in URLs without question marks being used?