# How do I file-read French special characters like é etc?

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**Created:** [October 10, 2023, 6:13am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/how-do-i-file-read-french-special-characters-like-e-etc/6618 "2023-10-10T06:13:19Z")\
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> [@davidpfister](#):
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> I just think that Intel compilers do not support the ucs4 character kinds like gfortran does.

Indeed, if I replace  
`character(len=100, kind=ucs4) :: string`  
simply by  
`character(len=100) :: string`  
in my program, ifx does read my UTF-8 file, does print the French characters in terminal and does write correctly the UTF-8 `utf_out.txt` file…

```plaintext
$ ifx fr.f90 && ./a.out
Lire des caractères accentués n'est pas difficile. Inutile d'apprendre ça par cœur.    
éèçàâäùëêïîüûöô

```

But the program then does not work anymore correctly with GFortran…

Things are not yet clear in my mind…

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