# Special letters using loadVar
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-letters-using-loadvar/14012
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [February 20, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-letters-using-loadvar/14012 "2003-02-20T23:59:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@RealTK](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RealTK)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-letters-using-loadvar/14012/1 "2003-02-20T23:59:15Z")
Does anyone know how to get loadVar to read special characters
like ä and ö when using it to read from a textfile?? :sure:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-letters-using-loadvar/14012/2 "2003-02-21T00:36:06Z")
See [this and [url=http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/international\_characters.htm]this](http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=22749)…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-letters-using-loadvar/14012/3 "2003-02-21T00:50:12Z")
why you shouldn’t use System.useCodePage?
[http://moock.org/asdg/technotes/againstUseCodePage](http://moock.org/asdg/technotes/againstUseCodePage)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-letters-using-loadvar/14012/4 "2003-02-21T01:42:40Z")
Hm… Interesting… Thanks for the info, h88… 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2003, 4:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-letters-using-loadvar/14012/5 "2003-02-21T04:07:21Z")
How is this actually done?
I tried using the hex numbers inside the text files but flash displayed the numbers, not the character. :sigh:
Can anyone explain to me plain and simple on how I can get an ä and an ö character
to display on a text that has been loaded from a textfile inside a dynamic textbox?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/special-letters-using-loadvar/14012/6 "2003-02-21T17:08:19Z")
If you want to have ‘ä’ in flash, then you should use: %E4 in your textfile:
&avariable=%E4 what ever
implies to:
&avariable=ä what ever
List of these characters can be found at:
[http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/url\_encoding.htm](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/url_encoding.htm)