# Show HTML Character Entities as symbols in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-html-character-entities-as-symbols-in-kibana/335191>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 5, 2023, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-html-character-entities-as-symbols-in-kibana/335191 "2023-06-05T08:19:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![ddoroshenko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@ddoroshenko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ddoroshenko)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-html-character-entities-as-symbols-in-kibana/335191/1 "2023-06-05T08:19:28Z")

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Hi,

I have records in ES where symbols are presented as Character Entities.  
For example `|` as `&#124;` and a record could looks like `bla&#124;bla&#124;bla`.

Is it posible in Kibana to show these entities as symbols, i.e. `bla|bla|bla` instead of `bla&#124;bla&#124;bla` ?

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**Author:** ![ppisljar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ppisljar/32/11588_2.png) [@ppisljar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppisljar)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-html-character-entities-as-symbols-in-kibana/335191/2 "2023-06-05T14:24:48Z")

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i dont think this is possible, field formatters allow you to base64 decode and url decode, but this would require a custom formatter it seems.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-html-character-entities-as-symbols-in-kibana/335191/3 "2023-06-06T06:13:05Z")

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I think this would be better handled during indexing time and Logstash should be able to handle this for you.

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**Author:** ![ddoroshenko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@ddoroshenko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ddoroshenko)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-html-character-entities-as-symbols-in-kibana/335191/4 "2023-06-06T08:00:19Z")

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@warkolm do you mean `gsub` in Logstash?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-html-character-entities-as-symbols-in-kibana/335191/5 "2023-06-06T10:43:38Z")

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Yep that'd work.

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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 4, 2023, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-html-character-entities-as-symbols-in-kibana/335191/6 "2023-07-04T10:44:04Z")

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