# Kibana maps character set/diacritics

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-maps-character-set-diacritics/222197>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** maps\
**Created:** [March 5, 2020, 5:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-maps-character-set-diacritics/222197 "2020-03-05T05:17:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Petr.Simik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/petr.simik/32/38082_2.png) [@Petr.Simik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Petr.Simik)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 5:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-maps-character-set-diacritics/222197/1 "2020-03-05T05:17:22Z")

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Maps does not show properly names of cities and streets. It does not show characters with diacritics.  
How can I change character set for maps to i.e UTF-8?  
thanks

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**Author:** ![jsanz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsanz/32/53734_2.png) [@jsanz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsanz)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 9:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-maps-character-set-diacritics/222197/2 "2020-03-05T09:30:51Z")

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Hi @Petr.Simik

Unfortunately, there's a bug in our basemaps generation, you can follow updates on [this issue](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/58325). You have instructions on how to setup alternative basemaps on this [blog post](https://www.elastic.co/blog/custom-basemaps-for-region-and-coordinate-maps-in-kibana), in case you are interested.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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**Author:** ![Petr.Simik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/petr.simik/32/38082_2.png) [@Petr.Simik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Petr.Simik)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-maps-character-set-diacritics/222197/3 "2020-03-06T08:48:52Z")

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thank you.  
I have a version 7.4.2 do you think it is going to be fixed in further version?

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**Author:** ![jsanz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsanz/32/53734_2.png) [@jsanz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsanz)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-maps-character-set-diacritics/222197/4 "2020-03-06T09:56:55Z")

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This is not tied to a specific version of the stack, the basemaps are the same for all our users. We are working on fixing this ASAP and won't require anything on your end.

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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:** [April 3, 2020, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-maps-character-set-diacritics/222197/5 "2020-04-03T09:56:59Z")

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