# Cannot load external image with special characters in file name

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cannot-load-external-image-with-special-characters-in-file-name/294873>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 21, 2009, 5:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cannot-load-external-image-with-special-characters-in-file-name/294873 "2009-08-21T05:44:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![supafly50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@supafly50](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/supafly50)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 5:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cannot-load-external-image-with-special-characters-in-file-name/294873/1 "2009-08-21T05:44:29Z")

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I’ve made an application which loads external images using URLRequest and URLLoader. Everything works fine until it needs to load an image which has special characters in the file name/location, e.g. ‘ú’ or ‘ð’, and then it doesn’t load anything.

when i run the .swf file locally it works, but if i run it when it’s embedded on an html page, it doesn’t work.

Does anybody know how to get around this? Many thanks in advance!