# Special characters from external source

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-from-external-source/28936>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 20, 2003, 10:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-from-external-source/28936 "2003-08-20T10:22:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Thorr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Thorr](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Thorr)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 10:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-from-external-source/28936/1 "2003-08-20T10:22:53Z")

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I have a dynamic text, loaded from an external txt file, in Italian language. That text contain “à”, “ò”, “è” etc., which are not displayed correctly in my swf.  
I tried to escape those characters (à=%E0, ò=%F2, è=%E8), but there is no difference.  
My dynamic text has the option “Embed Font Outlines for all characters” checked, and the txt file is saved in UTF-8 encoding.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 10:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-from-external-source/28936/2 "2003-08-20T10:41:34Z")

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Have you set render as html for the textfield ?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 10:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-from-external-source/28936/3 "2003-08-20T10:59:51Z")

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I tried also set render as html for the textfield.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 11:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-from-external-source/28936/4 "2003-08-20T11:14:44Z")

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What is displayed instead of those characters ?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 11:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-from-external-source/28936/5 "2003-08-20T11:32:10Z")

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It’s solved. I removed the “Embed Font Outlines for all characters” option, and also “Render text as HTML” and now there are displayed ok. Thx anyway.