# Loading in External Text - chris99022

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-in-external-text-chris99022/43477>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 23, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-in-external-text-chris99022/43477 "2004-02-23T04:27:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Soloman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Soloman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Soloman)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-in-external-text-chris99022/43477/1 "2004-02-23T04:27:09Z")

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I just tried the tutorial by chris99022 on loading an external txt file into a text box and it worked great. But there was one problem. Any apostrophes in my txt file would not be displayed. Does anyone know why this is?