# Special chars in Ignition e.g. ó

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/special-chars-in-ignition-e-g-o/80059>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [October 5, 2023, 8:39am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/special-chars-in-ignition-e-g-o/80059 "2023-10-05T08:39:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Andreas227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Andreas227](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Andreas227)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2023, 8:39am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/special-chars-in-ignition-e-g-o/80059/1 "2023-10-05T08:39:26Z")

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Hello Community,

I am working with a perspective table and an onRowClick Event.  
While this works fine, I encounter issues when working with Spanish words that have special characters in them.

E.g. I have a column named "Razón".

When I simply declare a variable with this string and push it as unicode to a textfield, this works fine.  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/d/6/d62523ac0c082becbe568cec4fca4c29cc700b3b.png)

However when I try to push the table selection directly to the textfield it doesnt work (not doing anything). Looking into this, I cannot even declare a variable with the value of that table selection, the issue already happens there so I have no way to manipulate that string.

Logging that exception using system.util.getLogger gives me u'Raz\xc3\xb3n' in Ignition Gateway Logs.  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/6/d/6dcf8ec49d8d3882bf6ff92f4e3f721f1a2edf4b.png)

What can I do to get my Designer to work with that special chars ?

Thank you  
Andreas

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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2023, 8:50am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/special-chars-in-ignition-e-g-o/80059/2 "2023-10-05T08:50:51Z")

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Post code - not pictures of code!

I've never had the problem you describe as I'm almost always working in English. Try adding the Unicode identifier.  
`spanish = self.props.sellection.data[0][u'Razón']`

I would be interested to learn if this works.

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**Author:** ![Andreas227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Andreas227](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Andreas227)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2023, 9:25am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/special-chars-in-ignition-e-g-o/80059/3 "2023-10-05T09:25:25Z")

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Trying this

> self.getSibling("TextField\_0").props.text = self.props.selection.data[0][u'Razón']

Logs a malformed path error in the logs

> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Malformed path: selection.data[0].Código

Código is actually another column so seems this is mixing it up.

The strange thing is this will somehow actually push the text from row 0 in that column to the text field, no matter which row I click and then log the error

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**Author:** ![Andreas227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Andreas227](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Andreas227)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2023, 9:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/special-chars-in-ignition-e-g-o/80059/4 "2023-10-05T09:51:25Z")

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Additional info, looks like the table (even showing text correctly) doesnt like that chars as its stating invalid Key Errors for that columns

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/6/a/6aa55fef7bf0a44e2183bbf4368cffb29434ee39.png)

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2023, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/special-chars-in-ignition-e-g-o/80059/5 "2023-10-05T11:59:58Z")

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Mappings in Perspective are very strict about keys. They must be legal json identifiers. Do make sure that all of your jython string constants use the `u'sôméthiñg wèird'` syntax to prevent them from being scrambled.