# Field character restriction

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-character-restriction/217645>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Tags:** elastic-app-search\
**Created:** [February 3, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-character-restriction/217645 "2020-02-03T15:16:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![uklft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@uklft](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/uklft)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-character-restriction/217645/1 "2020-02-03T15:16:20Z")

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Hey again,

Although the server explicitely forbids this, we would really like to use german umlauts in our field names.

Is there any chance that this is possible in the future?

![appsearch-2020-02-03 16-12-42](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/f/0f5aea4efad3e5c11c37062a4acd0360a6c973a2.png)

Kind regards,  
Fabian

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**Author:** ![JasonStoltz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jasonstoltz/32/49893_2.png) [@JasonStoltz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JasonStoltz)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-character-restriction/217645/2 "2020-02-04T13:01:40Z")

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Hey @uklft, thank you for posting.

To my knowledge, this is not something that is on our roadmap to update. Hopefully this does not cause you too much trouble.

Jason

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**Author:** ![uklft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@uklft](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/uklft)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 9:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-character-restriction/217645/3 "2020-02-14T09:12:05Z")

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Thanks, good to know. We'll find a workaround 🙂

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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:** [March 13, 2020, 9:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-character-restriction/217645/4 "2020-03-13T09:12:06Z")

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