# Special characters problem
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-problem/22311
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 2, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-problem/22311 "2003-06-02T15:49:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@LilleMartin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/LilleMartin)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-problem/22311/1 "2003-06-02T15:49:31Z")
Hi everyone.
First of all I’d like to apologize for not having the decency to introduce myself properly before I barge in and demand help, but I couldn’t find any thread named “introductions”, and I didn’t really know where to post it.
So.
I’m having a spot of trouble with special characters in Flash and XML. What I’m doing is that I’m loading text into dynamic textfields from an XML-file with embedded fonts for displaying in Flash.
Things I **have** checked:
The font in question does have the norwegian special characters.
I am using the system.useCodepage = true; - command
The funny thing is that when I preview it on my local drive everything looks peachy, but when I test it on my server the special characters don’t show up.
Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?
Thanks
-M
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-problem/22311/2 "2003-06-02T17:03:03Z")
does your server need to have anyhing installed for the speacial chars? for example if they are not on the server they cannot be displayed.
btw i may be way off just quick idea 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-problem/22311/3 "2003-06-02T17:10:02Z")
I can’t imagine the problem being on the server. The characters are embedded in a shared library swf with the characters, and they are written into the xml file.
Also; The characters show up nicely when I write them directly into the flash movie, so it seems like something goes wrong between the XML and the dynamic textfield.
-M
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-problem/22311/4 "2003-06-02T17:55:25Z")
hmm, im not sure then sorry…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2003, 2:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-problem/22311/5 "2003-06-03T02:01:15Z")
Hey.
I’m thankful for all suggestions. 🙂
Anyone else have an idea?
-M