# Help needed: French characters in AS text string

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-needed-french-characters-in-as-text-string/212590>\
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**Created:** [January 12, 2007, 11:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-needed-french-characters-in-as-text-string/212590 "2007-01-12T11:05:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![dotcomjohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@dotcomjohn](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dotcomjohn)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 11:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-needed-french-characters-in-as-text-string/212590/1 "2007-01-12T11:05:34Z")

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Can anyone tell me why I cannot get Flash 8 to display the accented characters in the example below - I have tried cutting & pasting the copy from a UTF8 textfile, entering the characters directly using the windows alt commands, replacing characters with escaped unicode, stating usecodepage true etc… none of which have worked?

Also the code needs to remain inline, so I am not looking to import the copy from an external source?

```auto
onClipEvent(load) {
    this.myString = "Vous êtes le seul à le savoir.";
}

```

Thanks.