# Converting text special characters

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/converting-text-special-characters/209870>\
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**Created:** [December 12, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/converting-text-special-characters/209870 "2006-12-12T23:27:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![robx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5e925/32.png) [@robx2](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/robx2)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/converting-text-special-characters/209870/1 "2006-12-12T23:27:59Z")

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Hi-

I’m trying to call a URL with a variable. I’m loading text into the variable, but need to convert the text into a format acceptable for yahoo maps…

So I need to convert spaces to +, etc. Is there a simple way to do this? Or a way to convert normal text with spaces and other characters into a format that yahoo or google maps will recognize?

thanks in advance.