# Special characters within Actionscript

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-within-actionscript/124212>\
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**Created:** [September 30, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-within-actionscript/124212 "2004-09-30T23:06:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![emolen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/94ad74/32.png) [@emolen](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/emolen)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-within-actionscript/124212/1 "2004-09-30T23:06:16Z")

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Ok so i’ve searched through the forums and only found hints on special characters when loading text from an external source like mysql or php, however my problem seems different because I can’t get those solutions to work. I simply want to add quotes around a portion of text that is in the actionscript being loaded with a createTextField. If i use the Qoutes themselves they interfere by breaking up the text since the loaded text is specified by “whatever the text is”;  
and I tried things like &qout; %22 and " but none of them read correctly. I also tried adding the  
System.useCodePage=true;  
script but wasn’t quite sure where to pt it but no matter where I did try it didn’t seem to work

hopes this makes sense

also for some reason I can’t get multiline=true; to work and am having to use  
for every line break. Exhausting when formatting many paragraphs of text. any hints on either would be greatly appreciated  
Cheers!  
erok