# Hover caption displaying foreign characters

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-caption-displaying-foreign-characters/135323
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [January 26, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-caption-displaying-foreign-characters/135323 "2005-01-26T16:10:39Z")
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### Author: ![matix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc79bd/32.png) [@matix](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/matix)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-caption-displaying-foreign-characters/135323/1 "2005-01-26T16:10:39Z")

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Hi,

I’ve just gone through the Hover Captions tutorial in the MX section, but I can’t get it to work with foreign characters. Does anybody know how to do this? I’ve tried using System.useCodepage=true; but with no luck…

Cheers!