# URL encoding issue

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/url-encoding-issue/172017>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 9, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/url-encoding-issue/172017 "2005-12-09T23:40:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![fathed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b5ac83/32.png) [@fathed](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fathed)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/url-encoding-issue/172017/1 "2005-12-09T23:40:04Z")

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I am trying to get %20 to show in flash as just a blank space (the url encoding). It has %20 in the XML but when it comes into flash I want it to just be the space. Is there any way to do this?