# Help loading xml file (characters not displaying properly)

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**Created:** [April 10, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-loading-xml-file-characters-not-displaying-properly/222009 "2007-04-10T04:56:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![cosmicloverocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@cosmicloverocks](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cosmicloverocks)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-loading-xml-file-characters-not-displaying-properly/222009/1 "2007-04-10T04:56:13Z")

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\*\*this is my xml file \*\*

```auto
<game>
    <question type="image">
            <questionText>Who's your daddy?</questionText>
            <answer1 image="images/cool.jpg">Dinner</answer1> 
            <answer2 image="images/geek.jpg">Happy Hour</answer2>
            <answer3 image="images/sportguy.jpg">Sporting Event</answer3>
    </question>
    <question type="text"> 
        <questionText>What's your daddy's name?</questionText>
            <answer1>Nardo</answer1>
            <answer2>Ramon</answer2>
            <answer3>Mambol</answer3> 
    </question>
</game> 

```

for some reason the apostrophes \*\* ’ \*\*in the [COLOR=Red]Who’s your daddy? [COLOR=Black]and the question mark ? are not displaying properly.

this is what i get  
[COLOR=Red] **Who's your daddy** [/COLOR]  
[/COLOR][/COLOR]