# I'm about to freak out! // French accents

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/im-about-to-freak-out-french-accents/160432>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 25, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/im-about-to-freak-out-french-accents/160432 "2005-08-25T21:47:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![rynobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bbce88/32.png) [@rynobot](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rynobot)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/im-about-to-freak-out-french-accents/160432/1 "2005-08-25T21:47:47Z")

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Has anyone had this problem before and been able to get it working:

I’m on a MAC - trying to load an external text file into flash which contains french accents. THEY WORK LOCALLY on my computer when I test it, BUT NOT ONLINE. Online the accents like “é” will appear as “©”, and other accented characters will appear as other symbols or just not appear at all.

I have read and tried everything that all the tutorials and even macromedia say, and it still does not work…

- the txt file is saved as UTF-8
- the text field is set to html, as well as the actionscript (htmltext =)
- I have specified the character glyphs for the dynamic text box
- I tried using “System.useCodepage = false;”

What am i missing?? Thanks in advance…