# UTF-8 characters not working in HubDB API query

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/utf-8-characters-not-working-in-hubdb-api-query/16482>\
**Category:** APIs & Integrations\
**Tags:** cms-content, developer-tools\
**Created:** [September 30, 2019, 11:23am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/utf-8-characters-not-working-in-hubdb-api-query/16482 "2019-09-30T11:23:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![morne-mpull](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/morne-mpull/32/52876_2.png) [@morne-mpull](https://community.hubspot.com/u/morne-mpull)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2019, 11:23am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/utf-8-characters-not-working-in-hubdb-api-query/16482/1 "2019-09-30T11:23:27Z")

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We’ve been experiencing difficulty making curl requestes to HubDB which includes a UTF-8 character.

Please see screenshot for example:

 ![screenshot of curl request to hubdb.PNG](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/2/e2dbba4ab1c797bd260928df7ea69cff677bc655.png)

Can you please advise if this is a known short coming in HubDB, if yes can you please advise a workaround.

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![IsaacTakushi](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/isaactakushi/32/70387_2.png) [@IsaacTakushi](https://community.hubspot.com/u/IsaacTakushi)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/utf-8-characters-not-working-in-hubdb-api-query/16482/2 "2019-09-30T19:29:51Z")

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Welcome, @morne-mpull.

To clarify, are you referring to the `400` error response to the second, unencoded request?

If so, I was able to make the same requests as you in [Postman](http://v) without encountering an issue. See **Screenshot 1** and **Screenshot 2** below:

 ![Screenshot 1.jpg](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/6/e6003cf01e52ae60bc700536a4d2ba1d4c5c6798.jpeg)  
Encoded request to your account.  
 ![Screenshot 2.jpg](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/e/8e1427112abfa8f8e524b6e84aa90eea4dbf19b4.jpeg)  
Unencoded request to your account.

Can you confirm whether our requests look identical? If they are, what do you receive when you run the unencoded request in Postman (not with `cURL`).

I also successfully queried a table containing a cell with the value `Führerschein` in my own account, per **Screenshot 3** and **Screenshot 4** :

 ![Screenshot 3.jpg](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/f/8fd7e7fc8ff8805c642f77dde63203253f985f85.jpeg)  
Encoded request to my account.  
 ![Screenshot 4.jpg](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/2X/2/2d5dcbf782fa1d579d4215bc79929031ef376ab7.jpeg)  
Unencoded request to my account.

Thus, the HubDB API supports UTF-8 characters like `ü`. The error may lie with your implementation, so running the same test in a REST client will help us isolate the cause.

Please let me know if I have misunderstood your question.