# Euro symbol not displaying in Flash from PHP

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**Created:** [November 4, 2008, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/euro-symbol-not-displaying-in-flash-from-php/274759 "2008-11-04T11:17:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![maith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@maith](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/maith)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/euro-symbol-not-displaying-in-flash-from-php/274759/1 "2008-11-04T11:17:27Z")

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Hi,  
How do I get the euro symbol € to display in Flash from PHP ?. It does not display it properly. The PHP code I have is:

\<?php  
$msgtoflash = “This is the Euro Symbol &#8364”;  
print ("&Databaseinfo=$msgtoflash");  
?\>

If I use the $ or £ symbols it works perfectly.

Thanks,  
Paul