# Special characters in Flash/php mail form?

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**Created:** [April 13, 2005, 11:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-in-flash-php-mail-form/144312 "2005-04-13T11:00:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![kathari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a183cd/32.png) [@kathari](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kathari)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 11:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-in-flash-php-mail-form/144312/1 "2005-04-13T11:00:31Z")

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Hi,  
Have made a very simple mail-form sent using php4 in a Flash-site. However the characters å, ä, ö and ’ (and possibly others) don’t display properly. How can I fix that? I have embedded all characters and they show right when writing the mail on the site. When importing text into Flash I would save the text as “text.txt” and format "Unicode (UTF  
-8) but how to do this with the data that is sent? Anyone knows?