# Special characters faulty in main window åäö **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** perspective\ **Created:** [November 21, 2022, 10:41am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/special-characters-faulty-in-main-window-aao/66745 "2022-11-21T10:41:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Herman\_Lundberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@Herman\_Lundberg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Herman_Lundberg)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 10:41am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/special-characters-faulty-in-main-window-aao/66745/1 "2022-11-21T10:41:16Z")
I'm using som special characters, åäö. I have embedded views and flex repeaters in my main window and in the small templates the special characters all work, but when they are added to the main window they dont work, something like "¤". I think all of the special charactres that don't work have been altered buy script or expression, but they do look okey when tehsted in the templates. Have you any ideas to where I can begin to troubleshoot this? Are the some unicode settings somewhere I can look into? I have tried to specify the strings to use unicode: return u"string". ---
**Author:** ![pascal.fragnoud](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pascal.fragnoud/32/24728_2.png) [@pascal.fragnoud](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pascal.fragnoud)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 10:53am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/special-characters-faulty-in-main-window-aao/66745/2 "2022-11-21T10:53:58Z")
Take a look at this thread: > [@\[IGN-5692\]Designer showing °C as °C in Perspective Label in Embedded View](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-showing-c-as-a-c-in-perspective-label-in-embedded-view/66579): > > v8.1.22 I have a "template" View I'm embedding into another View which has a Label in it that shows a temperature. Below is the label when editing the template View. [image] The units show correctly. However when I embed this into another View for display, in the Designer it shows up as °C: [image] In a standard browser (Chrome) it displays fine, but I'd like to know the reason it displays strangely in the Designer when embedded? Edit: the template is in my global / parent project. Edit … ---
**Author:** ![Herman\_Lundberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@Herman\_Lundberg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Herman_Lundberg)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/special-characters-faulty-in-main-window-aao/66745/3 "2022-11-22T14:30:08Z")
Thanks! That solved it.