# Txt files and special letters
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/txt-files-and-special-letters/38603
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [December 26, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/txt-files-and-special-letters/38603 "2003-12-26T17:20:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@SuperPhil](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SuperPhil)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/txt-files-and-special-letters/38603/1 "2003-12-26T17:20:52Z")
Hi All,
I used kirupa’s tutorial to dynamically load text from a txt file.
I put the following code into frame 1:
```
loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.onLoad = onText;
loadText.load("TEXTPERSO.txt");
```
function onText () {
// QuotesBox.html = true;
QuotesBox.htmlText = this.myNews;
}
and I added the following variable into my txt file:
myNews=blah blah
This works fine as long there is no special caracter such +, é, etc.
Do you knwo a work around to fix this and display all the caracters includ in my txt file?
Regards,
Phil
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2003, 7:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/txt-files-and-special-letters/38603/2 "2003-12-26T19:01:23Z")
Save the textfile as Unicode or encode the special characters.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/txt-files-and-special-letters/38603/3 "2003-12-26T20:52:32Z")
Thanks for your advice Claudio,
But this doesn’t work with me.
I used NotePad to save my txt file as Unicode, I tried all the possibilities:
ANSI
Unicode
Unicode big endian
UTF-8
none of them gives me the right text
I also tried to save my file as html file, but that’s not better
Could you tell me how to encode the special characters?
Anyway, thanks for your help
Phil
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/txt-files-and-special-letters/38603/4 "2003-12-26T21:57:05Z")
Unicode didnt work for you?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/txt-files-and-special-letters/38603/5 "2003-12-26T23:12:56Z")
unfortunately not
Please, explain to me how to encode the special characters.
thanks
Phil
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/txt-files-and-special-letters/38603/6 "2003-12-26T23:30:23Z")
[http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/url\_encoding.htm](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/url_encoding.htm)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/txt-files-and-special-letters/38603/7 "2003-12-27T00:36:30Z")
Great Claudio!
I searched the web I found also to set
system.useCodepage = false;
But this gives weird results
So I used the URL encodings shown in the web page you indicates and it’s working fine now!
I now have to transform the special characters programmatically
Many regards to you
Have a good time programming Flash
Phil