# Accents in choicescript? **URL:** \ **Category:** ChoiceScript Help\ **Created:** [May 20, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/accents-in-choicescript/1366 "2013-05-20T15:01:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Banedon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Banedon](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Banedon)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/accents-in-choicescript/1366/1 "2013-05-20T15:01:36Z")
Hey everybody, I’m new to choicescript and I have a question about it. I’m writing in french since it’s my native language and the thing is that when I put accents in the text like “à” or “é” it end with a black square with a “?” in it when i test the game. It’s pretty annoying and I would like to fix that since there will be a lot of accents in my game. So, I did some research on the forums to look if someone had a similar problem and I found a post. Unfortunately, the problem was that the OP was using word 2001 and copy-pasted the text form there to the .txt. It isn’t my case, I use notepad ++ to write in the .txt so I still don’t know how to fix the issue. So, if anyone have a solution to this, could you please help me ? ---
**Author:** ![2Ton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/2ton/32/786_2.png) [@2Ton](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/2Ton)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/accents-in-choicescript/1366/2 "2013-05-20T15:04:24Z")
Copy and pasting them should work idk a way around it if pasting wont do it ---
**Author:** ![CJW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/cjw/32/111787_2.png) [@CJW](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/CJW)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/accents-in-choicescript/1366/3 "2013-05-20T15:06:49Z")
In notepad++ there’s a drop-down menu entitled ‘Encoding’, click it and set it to “Encode in UTF-8” whilst editing each text file. Then use this table to get the codes to insert the accent characters: [http://www.utf8-chartable.de/](http://www.utf8-chartable.de/) Copy and pasting them from that site into your files should also work, providing you’ve changed the encoding (I think notepad++ is ANSI by default). ---
**Author:** ![Banedon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Banedon](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Banedon)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/accents-in-choicescript/1366/4 "2013-05-20T15:14:20Z")
Great, it works now ! Big thanks for the help ! ---
**Author:** ![trollhunterthethird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/trollhunterthethird/32/919_2.png) [@trollhunterthethird](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/trollhunterthethird)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/accents-in-choicescript/1366/5 "2013-05-20T15:33:07Z")
Game in French? Seems like I better start to listen in my language class now… ---
**Author:** ![Arcania](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/arcania/32/89710_2.png) [@Arcania](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Arcania)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/accents-in-choicescript/1366/6 "2013-05-22T19:21:59Z")
lol troll :-)) ---
**Author:** ![potato](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/potato/32/868_2.png) [@potato](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/potato)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/accents-in-choicescript/1366/7 "2013-05-23T03:29:53Z")
Hello! I’m the person with the similar question. I know that you’ve already solved the problem, but I would like to add that even if the ‘?’ came up in testing, once you put it onto the internet – say through drop box, or something like that – then the symbols automatically go away. I never bothered with fixing the symbols, I simply know that once I hook it up to the internet it reverts to the accents I had in mind. SO YEAH. Also, bonjour! Mon jeu était en français, aussi c: