# Utf-8? Urlencode? loadVars? Special Characters?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/utf-8-urlencode-loadvars-special-characters/185041>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [April 10, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/utf-8-urlencode-loadvars-special-characters/185041 "2006-04-10T14:18:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![merren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@merren](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/merren)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/utf-8-urlencode-loadvars-special-characters/185041/1 "2006-04-10T14:18:07Z")

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Hi there, Im pretty fresh with this.

From my input field I send special characters like [SIZE=-1]ë  
Like the word [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]Armenië is sended by flash sendvars as [/SIZE] Armeni%C3%AB,

In my database I get: Armenië  
[SIZE=-1]  
So what’s on?

Do I have to decode something in php file? Or is it a flash problem. I don’t know where to start.

Thanks  
[/SIZE]

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**Author:** ![ya3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@ya3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ya3)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/utf-8-urlencode-loadvars-special-characters/185041/2 "2006-04-10T14:25:09Z")

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Make sure the table in your (MySQL?) database is set to the correct encoding, although I’m not sure what the right encoding is… 😛

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**Author:** ![merren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@merren](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/merren)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/utf-8-urlencode-loadvars-special-characters/185041/3 "2006-04-10T14:27:06Z")

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> [@merren](#):
>
> Hi there, Im pretty fresh with this.
> 
> From my input field I send special characters like [SIZE=-1]ë  
> Like the word [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]Armenië is sended by flash sendvars as [/SIZE] Armeni%C3%AB,
> 
> In my database I get: Armenië  
> [SIZE=-1]  
> So what’s on?
> 
> Do I have to decode something in php file? Or is it a flash problem. I don’t know where to start.
> 
> Thanks  
> [/SIZE]

System.useCodepage = true  
:):):)🙂

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**Author:** ![955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/4bbf92/32.png) [@955](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/955)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/utf-8-urlencode-loadvars-special-characters/185041/4 "2006-04-10T14:35:23Z")

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> [@merren](#):
>
> System.useCodepage = true  
> :):):)🙂

[http://www.sephiroth.it/phpwiki/index.php?title=Kill\_System.usecodepage](http://www.sephiroth.it/phpwiki/index.php?title=Kill_System.usecodepage)

It looks to me that you need to send your pages as UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1… In fact, try going to View-\>Character Encoding-\>Unicode, and the character will show up correctly.