# Encoding issue

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encoding-issue/9634>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 8, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encoding-issue/9634 "2012-11-08T16:43:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![dmorales](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c67d28/32.png) [@dmorales](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dmorales)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encoding-issue/9634/1 "2012-11-08T16:43:03Z")

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Hi there,

I have an enconding issue when inserting:

JsonParseException[Unrecognized character escape '\>' (code 62)

I'm already encoding to UTF8, and as far as i know, the '\>' character keeps the same after encoding, so... what's happening? what can i do to resolve this issue?

Regards

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**Author:** ![dmorales](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c67d28/32.png) [@dmorales](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dmorales)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encoding-issue/9634/2 "2012-11-08T16:51:29Z")

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Another one

JsonParseException[Unrecognized character escape '[' (code 91)

Any idea?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encoding-issue/9634/3 "2017-07-06T03:05:16Z")

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