# Elastic web crawler converting special chars to "�" **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Search\ **Tags:** elastic-app-search\ **Created:** [May 17, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-web-crawler-converting-special-chars-to/359715 "2024-05-17T13:25:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![maddy30](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@maddy30](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maddy30)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-web-crawler-converting-special-chars-to/359715/1 "2024-05-17T13:25:24Z")
Hi, I am using Elastic web crawler to crawl my web pages and index to an app search engine. Everything works fine but it is indexing some of the special chars as "�". For example it is converting (R) and - as as �. can you someone please assist if i have to enable any configuration or processor to handle these special chars?? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in Advance. ---
**Author:** ![Sander\_Philipse](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sander_philipse/32/101890_2.png) [@Sander\_Philipse](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sander_Philipse)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-web-crawler-converting-special-chars-to/359715/2 "2024-05-20T14:13:13Z")
Hi @maddy30, Is your site encoded as UTF-8? Can you give me an example site or HTML page to help diagnose the issue? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-web-crawler-converting-special-chars-to/359715/3 "2024-06-17T14:13:34Z")
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