Characters not appearing in external text files

Hello all,

I’ve posed this question before but have yet to find a good solutuion. I have the problem using either external text files, or loading text from an XML file. Doesn’t matter if the font is embedded with special characters or not. Basically, many non-letter characters such as % & # + are not showing up. I end up with nothing for that character. For the text file it can be fixed by using the unicode or whatever - %2B for + for example. While this works, it’s not a good soltution as I need the client to generate the text files and that doesn’t make it very easy. For the XML (for a news-ticker type thing), this doesn’t work at all.

So what is the deal here and how can I fix this? Thanks!