# XML sheet in flash "dies" when odd characters appear

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-sheet-in-flash-dies-when-odd-characters-appear/221911>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 9, 2007, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-sheet-in-flash-dies-when-odd-characters-appear/221911 "2007-04-09T10:21:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-sheet-in-flash-dies-when-odd-characters-appear/221911/1 "2007-04-09T10:21:04Z")

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**[COLOR=“Red”]NEVERMIND! 😃 PROBLEM SOLVED![/COLOR]**

Hi, i have a flash document which loads in data from an xml sheet…

when the characters æ, ø, å, ë or any other chars apart from standard US chars comes up, it terminates or dies…  
The xml sheet works fine when i load it in firefox, so i suppose that the fault comes from some encoding problem inside flash?  
Is there some function that i have to run the xml file through before printing them to convert them to UTF-8 or something?

Thanks in advance

Brian