# Use Danish letters in ignition

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-danish-letters-in-ignition/26661>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [July 18, 2019, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-danish-letters-in-ignition/26661 "2019-07-18T12:06:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mikkn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3d9bf3/32.png) [@mikkn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mikkn)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-danish-letters-in-ignition/26661/1 "2019-07-18T12:06:34Z")

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Hey  
does anyone know how to get ignition to use characters that are not included in the English alphabet, because when I use Danish characters like æ, ø, å, I get this “ânsker du at fors|âtte”  
i hope someone can 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:** [July 18, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-danish-letters-in-ignition/26661/2 "2019-07-18T12:11:21Z")

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Is this in Vision or Perspective? Does the font support it?

Are you using the characters directly (typing it into the designer), or does it come from some external source (database, PLC, script, …)?

AFAIK, this just works.

![afbeelding](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/b/b4f409763e7c6916c6cc522eb0bc1919e1b03777.png)

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**Author:** ![mikkn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3d9bf3/32.png) [@mikkn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mikkn)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-danish-letters-in-ignition/26661/3 "2019-07-18T12:20:34Z")

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yeah the font support it, i have it in a script and it is shown on a confirm message

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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:** [July 18, 2019, 12:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-danish-letters-in-ignition/26661/4 "2019-07-18T12:22:16Z")

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Did you add the unicode prefix “`u`” to your strings?

```auto
u"Test:æ, ø, å"

```

[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)

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**Author:** ![mikkn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3d9bf3/32.png) [@mikkn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mikkn)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 6:24am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/use-danish-letters-in-ignition/26661/5 "2019-07-19T06:24:11Z")

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nope i have not add the unicode prefix to my strings, but i have just tried it and it works, so thanks for the help