# I can't load external text from TXT file!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-cant-load-external-text-from-txt-file/120459>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 24, 2004, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-cant-load-external-text-from-txt-file/120459 "2004-08-24T14:32:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![worldsound](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ee7513/32.png) [@worldsound](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/worldsound)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-cant-load-external-text-from-txt-file/120459/1 "2004-08-24T14:32:28Z")

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HELP ME!!!

I realy need help! Everytime I try to load text from an external TXT file, I can’t see the text right.

In my language (Portugueses) we use caracters as: ã,ê,õ, and many more…

And when I write, for example:  
pães

It appears like this:  
p  
(and next to the p, it’s a square)

If I publish my FLA file as Flash Player 5, the text appears normal but I need to publish it as Flash 6 or higher to use other components (ScrollPane, for example) and then, those special caracters are substitued by squares…AGAIN!

How can I use both things (external text and components)?

Thanks to anyone who can help me!  
Tiago

PS-I used this tutorial to load external text:  
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/cssfile.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/cssfile.htm)

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**Author:** ![Lacuna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lacuna](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Lacuna)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-cant-load-external-text-from-txt-file/120459/2 "2004-08-24T16:16:23Z")

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did you try adding the proper ‘characters’ in your font properties?

~ Lacuna :love:

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**Author:** ![firegambler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/edb3f5/32.png) [@firegambler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/firegambler)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-cant-load-external-text-from-txt-file/120459/3 "2004-08-24T16:56:33Z")

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Yep, I stumbled across this with german letters once.

Make sure you saved your text file in UTF-8 encoding!  
(See attachment)

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**Author:** ![aknatn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@aknatn](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/aknatn)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-cant-load-external-text-from-txt-file/120459/4 "2004-08-24T17:46:03Z")

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Check out the Macromedia site here [http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/languages.html](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/languages.html) Also, Actionscript: The Definitive Guide 2 has alot of data on unicode and different ways of supporting characters in flash.