# Special characters wont work properly

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-wont-work-properly/188803>\
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**Created:** [May 10, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-wont-work-properly/188803 "2006-05-10T22:19:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![KIOD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8797f3/32.png) [@KIOD](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/KIOD)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-characters-wont-work-properly/188803/1 "2006-05-10T22:19:49Z")

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Im a norwegian struggeling with our special characters ÆæØøÅå. They wont show up properly in my XML PHP Guestbook. I have embeded the fonts so I really dont understand why it wont work. They seem to print on top of each other and sometimes leaves big spaces between them. I have a testfile out on [http://www.roccostyle.com/bs02/bs02main.html](http://www.roccostyle.com/bs02/bs02main.html) Please help me anyone…