# Tag export special symbols bug? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition83\ **Created:** [April 15, 2026, 9:44am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-export-special-symbols-bug/115080 "2026-04-15T09:44:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Simen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Simen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Simen)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2026, 9:44am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-export-special-symbols-bug/115080/1 "2026-04-15T09:44:52Z")
When exporting tags from the designer in 8.3.3 "special" symbols and characters break. For example: "engUnit: °C" turns into "engUnit: �C", ø turns into ? Tag export is pretty much unusable for me now. I understand it might be bad practice to use ø in alarm pipeline names, but it used to work without issues. °C is a perfectly standard engineering unit for temperature and should not break. I assume this is a bug related to the recent 8.1 -\> 8.3 upgrade. ---
**Author:** ![Simen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Simen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Simen)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2026, 10:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-export-special-symbols-bug/115080/2 "2026-04-15T10:00:54Z")
Just had a look in the release notes and it seems to be a fix in the upcoming 8.3.5-rc1! "Fixed an issue with special characters (non-ASCII Unicode characters) not exporting correctly in Tag exports." ---
**Author:** ![tgarrison](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/tgarrison/32/80965_2.png) [@tgarrison](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tgarrison)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2026, 11:55am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-export-special-symbols-bug/115080/3 "2026-04-15T11:55:04Z")
Always nice when they've fixed it before you found it.. 🙂 😀