# How to make scandic characters to work in XML?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-scandic-characters-to-work-in-xml/255265
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 20, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-scandic-characters-to-work-in-xml/255265 "2008-03-20T16:09:10Z")
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### Author: ![tepesa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@tepesa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tepesa)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-scandic-characters-to-work-in-xml/255265/1 "2008-03-20T16:09:10Z")

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I made a photo gallery using kirupa’s tutorial, [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/xml\_flash\_photogallery.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/xml_flash_photogallery.htm)

My problem is that I can’t make the scandic characters (äöå) to work on the picture texts. For example if I write a word with a scandic character to a XML file

\<pic\>  
\<image\>images/image1.jpg\</image\>  
\<caption\>Hello ää\</caption\>  
\</pic\>

it won’t show it on the flash file. Is there anyway to fix this problem?