# Loadvars and character encoding

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadvars-and-character-encoding/209962>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 13, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadvars-and-character-encoding/209962 "2006-12-13T18:01:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadvars-and-character-encoding/209962/1 "2006-12-13T18:01:35Z")

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Hello all.

I’m using Loadvars to get some data from PHP files.

What do you need to do in order to get external data with special characters correctly displayed in Flash? Now, they get rendered as square boxes…

Thanks!