# Chinse character can't display in QR Code

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chinse-character-cant-display-in-qr-code/85069>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [February 1, 2024, 5:06am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chinse-character-cant-display-in-qr-code/85069 "2024-02-01T05:06:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lina\_Su](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Lina\_Su](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Lina_Su)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 5:06am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chinse-character-cant-display-in-qr-code/85069/1 "2024-02-01T05:06:24Z")

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I am design a label in Ignition using Report module.  
The data source is from my MSSQL DB.  
I create a QR Code , the datakey with some Chinese as well, when I scan the QR code, Chinese character show as ????

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/e/b/eb56d75eadb7a052b7ade1bd6ec60fcf86a305fe.png)

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**Author:** ![pascal.fragnoud](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pascal.fragnoud/32/24728_2.png) [@pascal.fragnoud](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pascal.fragnoud)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 9:22am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chinse-character-cant-display-in-qr-code/85069/2 "2024-02-01T09:22:42Z")

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> [@Lina\_Su](#):
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> Chinese character show as ????

where ?  
This is likely an encoding issue. Try changing the encoding where you're trying to display the data.