# Problem unicode character with JSON API feeback

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-unicode-character-with-json-api-feeback/22339>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 5, 2019, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-unicode-character-with-json-api-feeback/22339 "2019-02-05T08:32:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![etienne.leroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@etienne.leroy](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/etienne.leroy)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-unicode-character-with-json-api-feeback/22339/1 "2019-02-05T08:32:37Z")

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I have an issue using some API or Http Callback with Ignition.

When acceding to JSON Data either as a reply of an http get using an API or with an Http post retrieved by a webdev python script, Ignition add some “u” characters that induce issue to decode this as a JSON.

How to remove this characters ?

Thank you very much for your help

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**Author:** ![Sanderd17](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sanderd17/32/8735_2.png) [@Sanderd17](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Sanderd17)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 11:54am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-unicode-character-with-json-api-feeback/22339/2 "2019-02-05T11:54:34Z")

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You’re probably meaning the `u` prefixes that define unicode strings (see [https://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode.html#unicode-literals-in-python-source-code](https://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode.html#unicode-literals-in-python-source-code) )

Those shouldn’t cause any issues, as they’re just in the representation, and not in the string. Can you show us where you’re getting those, and where it fails with your code?