# Url string

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/url-string/244267>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [November 15, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/url-string/244267 "2007-11-15T18:59:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![roleiflex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@roleiflex](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/roleiflex)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/url-string/244267/1 "2007-11-15T18:59:34Z")

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hi,  
im trying to pass a urlstring with special (spanish) characters to my flash video player like this:  
video.htm?title=Uso%20del%20plan%20de%20acción%20del%20asma&video=04seg\_Asma\_Pedi\_sp.flvthe “title” shows up in a Dynamic textfield in my swf, but it cuts out the special chars in Firefox, it works fine in IE and Netscape.

anyone run into this before? I have tried adding “system.useCodepage = true;” to my flash doc and tried many different encodings too (á, ó, etc) but nothing works. Actually it does work once but then if i navigate to another video then come back to this one it doesnt work anymore!

thanks for any insight,  
af