# Message

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/message/2208>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [September 20, 2010, 7:06am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/message/2208 "2010-09-20T07:06:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![ar.gharedaghi1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@ar.gharedaghi1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ar.gharedaghi1)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 7:06am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/message/2208/1 "2010-09-20T07:06:22Z")

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Hi dear friends.  
I have a question about below command:

system.gui.messageBox(‘MESSAGE’)

I wrote the MESSAGE with national character such as Arabic Characters and this command dose not work correctly with these characters.  
Could you helped me.  
Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/message/2208/2 "2010-09-20T16:23:29Z")

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What part didn’t work correctly? You may need to use unicode encoding for these characters (in python, thats done by encoding the character’s unicode value in hex prefixed with \u, like “\uxxxx” )