# Latin 1 support

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/latin-1-support/1876>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 27, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/latin-1-support/1876 "2010-05-27T18:43:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/latin-1-support/1876/1 "2010-05-27T18:43:48Z")

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I know you guys are working hard to bring i18n to ignition but I need to deliver something now.

I’ve created a SQLTags driver for all the points. Currently you can’t use é and â and other non ascii characters in the tag name. But you can use them in the tooltips.  
💡 I can create the screens and display the tool tip instead of the tag name.  
❓ does tag import/export handle utf8 csv files? (export works)  
❓ alarms? Can the alarm table be made to show the tooltip instead of the tag name?  
❓ history? Can the history graph show the tool tip instead of the tag name. (I’m pretty sure I can make this work)  
❓ what other things will jump out and bite me with this plan?

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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:** [May 27, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/latin-1-support/1876/2 "2010-05-27T23:44:04Z")

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Tomorrow I’ll look into what we can do to support these characters in the tag name.

With internal sqltags it shouldn’t be a problem- through the database, however, it may be necessary to ensure that the collation is set up in the database to prevent “è=e”. Maybe it doesn’t matter, though, because I’m not sure we ever select based on the tag name…

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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:** [May 28, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/latin-1-support/1876/3 "2010-05-28T18:40:55Z")

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I’ve modified tags to allow a wider range of characters in the names, and everything appears to work fine. Didn’t make it into the latest dev release, but should be in the next one.

Regards,

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**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/latin-1-support/1876/4 "2010-06-01T19:25:58Z")

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Thanks,

I’ll give it a go when it comes out.