# Quick Client - Escape Characters

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/quick-client-escape-characters/31767>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [January 30, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/quick-client-escape-characters/31767 "2020-01-30T13:54:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![christianrauh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@christianrauh](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/christianrauh)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/quick-client-escape-characters/31767/1 "2020-01-30T13:54:17Z")

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I’m trying to write escape characters to a tag in the quick client (\u002 and \u003) but I believe they are being sent as the actual string characters to the device. Is there a way to send escape characters? The tag is string type to the TCP driver.

My goal is to send the string “[STX]H0[ETX]” with “\u002H0\u003” but the receiving socket is showing that as a complete string without the special characters.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/quick-client-escape-characters/31767/2 "2020-01-30T13:59:10Z")

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You’ll have to do this in a script instead.

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**Author:** ![christianrauh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@christianrauh](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/christianrauh)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/quick-client-escape-characters/31767/3 "2020-01-30T14:00:05Z")

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Will do. Thank you for the quick response.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/quick-client-escape-characters/31767/4 "2020-01-30T14:01:03Z")

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I think in python the string will look like `"\x02H\x03"`.