# Passing special characters to swf so.addVariable won't work

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**Created:** [April 12, 2010, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-special-characters-to-swf-so-addvariable-wont-work/307861 "2010-04-12T12:26:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-special-characters-to-swf-so-addvariable-wont-work/307861/1 "2010-04-12T12:26:18Z")

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Hi,

I have a few variables that I need to pass to Flash,

so.addVariable(“var4”,“créer”);

I read that I can do this by using this:  
so.addVariable(“var4”,encode(“créer”));

but that won’t work either… the é gets replaced by FFFD instead.

Who can point me in the right direction please ?

grtz,  
ToM.