# Special characters inside Controls **URL:** \ **Category:** Discussion in English\ **Created:** [August 28, 2024, 11:32am UTC](https://forum.dotvvm.com/t/special-characters-inside-controls/249 "2024-08-28T11:32:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wolfstudiodev](https://forum.dotvvm.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/3be4f8/32.png) [@wolfstudiodev](https://forum.dotvvm.com/u/wolfstudiodev)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 11:32am UTC](https://forum.dotvvm.com/t/special-characters-inside-controls/249/1 "2024-08-28T11:32:22Z")
Hey guys, When using special characters inside Controls, the output is �. Is there a way to fix it? It only happens inside Controls. ---
**Author:** ![exyi](https://forum.dotvvm.com/user_avatar/forum.dotvvm.com/exyi/32/9_2.png) [@exyi](https://forum.dotvvm.com/u/exyi)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 1:18pm UTC](https://forum.dotvvm.com/t/special-characters-inside-controls/249/2 "2024-08-28T13:18:28Z")
Are you sure that the `dotcontrol` file is saved in the UTF-8 encoding? If yes, then it’s most likely a bug in DotVVM, could you please send us the file or a sample project where this occurs? ---
**Author:** ![wolfstudiodev](https://forum.dotvvm.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/3be4f8/32.png) [@wolfstudiodev](https://forum.dotvvm.com/u/wolfstudiodev)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.dotvvm.com/t/special-characters-inside-controls/249/3 "2024-08-28T13:32:40Z")
How can I check that? It’s happening in a new dotvvm project, just created the control from the right click context menu. ---
**Author:** ![exyi](https://forum.dotvvm.com/user_avatar/forum.dotvvm.com/exyi/32/9_2.png) [@exyi](https://forum.dotvvm.com/u/exyi)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.dotvvm.com/t/special-characters-inside-controls/249/4 "2024-08-28T14:00:09Z")
Your favorite text editor probably displays that somewhere. For instance, VS Code has a button in the bottom panel: ![image](https://forum.dotvvm.com/uploads/default/original/1X/2daee015abc3ec9166c7a7377558299c95c4682d.png) ---
**Author:** ![wolfstudiodev](https://forum.dotvvm.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/3be4f8/32.png) [@wolfstudiodev](https://forum.dotvvm.com/u/wolfstudiodev)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.dotvvm.com/t/special-characters-inside-controls/249/5 "2024-08-28T14:06:20Z")
Oh I got it… I had to save the file again using UTF-8 encoding. Is there a way to select this format everytime I create a new control instead of doing it manually for dotcontrol files? Thank you for the help! ---
**Author:** ![kamm85](https://forum.dotvvm.com/user_avatar/forum.dotvvm.com/kamm85/32/18_2.png) [@kamm85](https://forum.dotvvm.com/u/kamm85)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.dotvvm.com/t/special-characters-inside-controls/249/6 "2024-08-28T16:32:48Z")
I thing that this is default. My configuration of visual studio ![image](https://forum.dotvvm.com/uploads/default/original/1X/527de566220be3289f2595d77d1605ae1805043a.png) For conversion you can use text editor … for exaple PSPad… ---
**Author:** ![wolfstudiodev](https://forum.dotvvm.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/3be4f8/32.png) [@wolfstudiodev](https://forum.dotvvm.com/u/wolfstudiodev)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 8:03am UTC](https://forum.dotvvm.com/t/special-characters-inside-controls/249/7 "2024-08-30T08:03:20Z")
Hey, I have the option checked, and the issue is only happening with .dotcontrol files. ---
**Author:** ![exyi](https://forum.dotvvm.com/user_avatar/forum.dotvvm.com/exyi/32/9_2.png) [@exyi](https://forum.dotvvm.com/u/exyi)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 8:42am UTC](https://forum.dotvvm.com/t/special-characters-inside-controls/249/8 "2024-08-31T08:42:29Z")
That’s quite strange, as we have all of the template files in the same “UTF-8 with BOM” encoding. What was the original encoding before you changed it back to UTF-8?