# loadVars: how to load "&" Sign or "%" sign

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadvars-how-to-load-sign-or-sign/260954>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 21, 2008, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadvars-how-to-load-sign-or-sign/260954 "2008-05-21T13:25:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jon\_bla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@jon\_bla](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jon_bla)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadvars-how-to-load-sign-or-sign/260954/1 "2008-05-21T13:25:11Z")

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i was just wonder if there is a possible way to do this?  
If you can actually load these signs % or &.

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**Author:** ![Digitalosophy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/digitalosophy/32/1114_2.png) [@Digitalosophy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Digitalosophy)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadvars-how-to-load-sign-or-sign/260954/2 "2008-05-21T13:37:56Z")

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No, you would have to load the html equivalent. Load Vars will bomb otherwise.

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**Author:** ![jon\_bla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@jon\_bla](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jon_bla)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadvars-how-to-load-sign-or-sign/260954/3 "2008-05-21T13:51:28Z")

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do you mean like & & &#38  
this still doesnt work

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**Author:** ![oldgreymare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@oldgreymare](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/oldgreymare)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loadvars-how-to-load-sign-or-sign/260954/4 "2008-05-21T14:41:10Z")

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[QUOTE=jon\_bla;2329122]do you mean like & & &  
this still doesnt work[/QUOTE]

I’ve done this without issue. I use %25 for % and %26 for &. Make sure that the html page that holds the swf has this line in the head tag.  
\<meta http-equiv=“content-type” content=“text-html; charset=utf-8”\>

Are you loading from an external text file? If so make sure that you save it with utf-8 encoding

ogm