# Russian symbols in kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/russian-symbols-in-kibana/268742>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 30, 2021, 7:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/russian-symbols-in-kibana/268742 "2021-03-30T07:45:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ajdanoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@ajdanoff](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ajdanoff)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 7:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/russian-symbols-in-kibana/268742/1 "2021-03-30T07:45:47Z")

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Hello,

I have the following question.

I have created an index in kibana, which contains a "description" field. The field contains texts in Russian. When discovering this index in kibana, Russian letters are displayed as "?" symbols.

Is there a way to fix this problem in kibana?

with kind regards,

Alexander Zhdanov

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**Author:** ![Marta\_Bondyra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marta_bondyra/32/102122_2.png) [@Marta\_Bondyra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marta_Bondyra)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/russian-symbols-in-kibana/268742/2 "2021-03-30T09:15:10Z")

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Hi Alexander,

you can probably fix this by using a Russian language text analyzer when ingesting your data. Here's a link for reference: [Language analyzers | Elasticsearch Reference [7.12] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-lang-analyzer.html)

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**Author:** ![ajdanoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@ajdanoff](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ajdanoff)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 9:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/russian-symbols-in-kibana/268742/3 "2021-03-31T09:26:05Z")

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Hi Marta,

thank you for your reply.

In our index, we have been already using "analyzer":"russian". Here is the field definition:  
`"description" : { "type" : "text", "fields" : { "keyword" : { "type" : "keyword", "ignore_above" : 2000 } }, "analyzer" : "russian" }`  
I would like to know if a customization of the analyzer works in the case?

with kind regards,

Alexander

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**Author:** ![ajdanoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@ajdanoff](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ajdanoff)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/russian-symbols-in-kibana/268742/4 "2021-04-09T15:29:59Z")

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Hi Marta,

We managed to find a work-around for the problem. Before sending data to "kibana", we translate Russian symbols to Latin.

with kind regards,

Alexander

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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:** [May 7, 2021, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/russian-symbols-in-kibana/268742/5 "2021-05-07T15:30:46Z")

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