# Spanish cahracters not showing properly

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spanish-cahracters-not-showing-properly/169317
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**Created:** [November 15, 2005, 11:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spanish-cahracters-not-showing-properly/169317 "2005-11-15T11:05:05Z")
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### Author: ![varecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e8c25b/32.png) [@varecha](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/varecha)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2005, 11:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spanish-cahracters-not-showing-properly/169317/1 "2005-11-15T11:05:05Z")

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hi everybody, i want to upload some news to a flash site from php and show them in dinamyc text boxes

the text shows well and everything is so beautiful but as some of you know spanish has a very few special characters that english dont, such as Ñ á,é,í,ó,ú,ä,ë,ï,ö,ü

instead of these characters i get squares, i guess there is some encoding option that im missing, ive been reading some tuts and tried changing the char range and playing with html property and textformat object but i dont get it to work

im sure someone has had this problem before but didnt have luck searching the forum either, any help will bw be appreciated

cheers