# Greek from XML **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [June 5, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/greek-from-xml/262429 "2008-06-05T20:57:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reverb9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de0a6/32.png) [@Reverb9](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Reverb9)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/greek-from-xml/262429/1 "2008-06-05T20:57:59Z")
I´m loading text via XML and when I trace it it looks fine in the output window. So the data is there. But, when I add it to a text field on the stage the text comes up as squares on the stage. Some of the words that only contain latin characters look fine. I´ve tried to save the XML file in various ways with both Dreamweaver and Notepad, greek encoding, UTF-8, iso-8859-7, Unicode, Unicode big endian etc but to no success. Also, when writing the greek text in a static textfield with the same font as the embedded one - it shows! So the characters are there in the font. But it all goes Pete Tong somewhere between the XML data and my textfield. Please help! My deadline has already passed. (I´ve seen some PHP solutions but PHP is not an option on the server we´re running) Thanks in advance Pierre ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_Lexcuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@Alex\_Lexcuk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alex_Lexcuk)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/greek-from-xml/262429/2 "2008-06-05T21:28:00Z")
UTF-8 [http://dnadillo.dn.ua/fla/XML/img-xml.swf](http://dnadillo.dn.ua/fla/XML/img-xml.swf) ---
**Author:** ![Reverb9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de0a6/32.png) [@Reverb9](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Reverb9)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/greek-from-xml/262429/3 "2008-06-05T21:38:48Z")
So my XML looks something like: \ \ \ \Σχεδίαση\ \ \ it should work, right? I´ve tried that along with saving the .xml as UTF-8 in Notepad. No luck. I have even tried with System.useCodePage = true; but that didn´t do it either. Thanks for your time! ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_Lexcuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@Alex\_Lexcuk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alex_Lexcuk)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 7:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/greek-from-xml/262429/4 "2008-06-06T07:54:02Z")
not use this \ Open my xml file from [http://dnadillo.dn.ua/fla/XML/img-xml-img.zip](http://dnadillo.dn.ua/fla/XML/img-xml-img.zip) img\_xml.xml hi has UTF-8 Test him, and change him according to your desire ---
**Author:** ![Pier25](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@Pier25](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Pier25)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/greek-from-xml/262429/5 "2008-06-06T18:59:50Z")
in your editor you also have to save the file with utf8 enconding ---
**Author:** ![Reverb9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de0a6/32.png) [@Reverb9](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Reverb9)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2008, 11:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/greek-from-xml/262429/6 "2008-06-07T11:40:16Z")
Thank you for your help Alex and Pier but it turns out it´s probably not an XML Encoding -problem. Check this out: [http://locomotiv.globalinn.se/greektest/](http://locomotiv.globalinn.se/greektest/) One field with static text that is looking fine. And the other with dynamic text is not looking very good. Here´s the code for the textfield: ```auto tf.embedFonts = true; tf.text = "Dynamic text: ΑντοχήΣΧΕΔΊΑΣΗΚΆΜΕΡΑ"; ``` The text “Dynamic text: ΑντοχήΣΧΕΔΊΑΣΗΚΆΜΕΡΑ” is added to the text field and I´ve clicked Auto Fill in the embed options. So, the characters are there. Could this be a codePage problem? I´ve tried useCodePage as both true and false and none works. Please - I need more help! ---
**Author:** ![Pier25](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@Pier25](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Pier25)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/greek-from-xml/262429/7 "2008-06-08T00:40:01Z")
is the error consistent on all browsers, platforms,players? Once I had the weirdest issue… but only in firefox. It was because wmode=transparent on firefox bugged the player… ---
**Author:** ![Reverb9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de0a6/32.png) [@Reverb9](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Reverb9)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 9:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/greek-from-xml/262429/8 "2008-06-09T09:06:56Z")
Turned out to be a font export problem after all. GreekHelvetica just didn´t work in my dynamic textfield. Switched to Arial and it works. Took me three days and a font change. Christ! But it´s still very weird that I could write the text statically and not dynamically. Not the most obvious place to start the error search. ---
**Author:** ![Reverb9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de0a6/32.png) [@Reverb9](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Reverb9)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/greek-from-xml/262429/9 "2008-06-09T09:07:34Z")
Thanks for your time!