# Displaying Chinese characters

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-chinese-characters/225394>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 11, 2007, 9:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-chinese-characters/225394 "2007-05-11T09:06:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 9:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-chinese-characters/225394/1 "2007-05-11T09:06:31Z")

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Hi  
I’m building a site that needs to show text in English or Chinese. I have a LoadVars that calls a PHP script which returns the user’s country (based on IP and the ip2country database). I have a variable in action script which is used in a dynamic text field. If I switch the variable from containing English text to Chinese text, how can I make that display properly in Flash? I cant rely on the user having that font installed as the flash allows them to manually change their country.

thanks in advance for any advice