# Cyrillic fonts in alarm name

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/cyrillic-fonts-in-alarm-name/2380>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 1, 2010, 9:29am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/cyrillic-fonts-in-alarm-name/2380 "2010-12-01T09:29:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![vahterto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e68b1a/32.png) [@vahterto](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/vahterto)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 9:29am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/cyrillic-fonts-in-alarm-name/2380/1 "2010-12-01T09:29:20Z")

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Hi

Tag import does not work when having cyrillic fonts in csv file.  
Is there any way to make this work or do we have to write these in manually in tags?

Br  
Tommi Vahtera  
THT Control Oy

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**Author:** ![dave.fogle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@dave.fogle](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dave.fogle)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/cyrillic-fonts-in-alarm-name/2380/2 "2010-12-01T22:47:01Z")

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Unfortunately they have to be entered manually at this time.

The problem has to do with the import/export functions dealing explicitly with ASCII character set encoding which can't represent the Cyrillic character set.

We are aware of the issue and are looking into it.

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**Author:** ![Colby.Clegg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/colby.clegg/32/3282_2.png) [@Colby.Clegg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Colby.Clegg)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/cyrillic-fonts-in-alarm-name/2380/3 "2010-12-02T22:25:10Z")

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Hi,

This has been fixed (hopefully) in 7.1.8. Basically, we’ve improved unicode support in tag export/import, so you shouldn’t have a problem.

Regards,

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**Author:** ![vahterto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e68b1a/32.png) [@vahterto](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/vahterto)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/cyrillic-fonts-in-alarm-name/2380/4 "2010-12-03T16:14:14Z")

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Thanks, I will test in 7.18 and reply results here.

Br  
Tommi Vahtera

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**Author:** ![Colby.Clegg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/colby.clegg/32/3282_2.png) [@Colby.Clegg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Colby.Clegg)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/cyrillic-fonts-in-alarm-name/2380/5 "2010-12-03T17:11:32Z")

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Hi Tommi-

Just to be clear, it will be in beta 4 which isn’t up yet- but should be in a bit.

Regards,