# Embeding non-english characters in a font in the library

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**Created:** [September 8, 2004, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/embeding-non-english-characters-in-a-font-in-the-library/63600 "2004-09-08T10:32:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![ShulChi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@ShulChi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ShulChi)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/embeding-non-english-characters-in-a-font-in-the-library/63600/1 "2004-09-08T10:32:31Z")

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sup guys, i’m having troubles again :upset:

i’m one of many unfortunate ppl who live in Central Europe (Slovenia), where apart from the basic characters in english language we use 6 more characters. And these 6 characters are the nightmare for every designer who lives here!!! 😱 These are the 蚞ȊŽ (don’t know if you can see them correctly though).

anyway… i’m creating a site in flash with shared font symboly accross many separate SWFs using a shared library. but the library seems to embed only the english and the standard characters since these 6 characters don’t show up in the finished SWF’s.

you guys have any idea how to handle this … i’ve been looking over the web for solutions but it’s too complicated for my brain :h:

anyway … here’s some of the pages i found concerning this matter if it helps: [http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000211.php](http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000211.php)  
[http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/languages/unicode\_in\_flmx/](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/languages/unicode_in_flmx/)

please help me!!!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 11:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/embeding-non-english-characters-in-a-font-in-the-library/63600/2 "2004-09-08T11:53:18Z")

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try importing your text from a txt-file, saved as unicode.

If you load external text files that are not Unicode-encoded, you should set System.useCodepage to true. Add the following code as the first line of code in the first frame of the SWF file that is loading the data:

System.useCodepage = true;

good luck.

NB. oh and I can read those 6 characters just fine. What’s this font? Arial? Use that then 🙂