# Special characters in Slack notifications

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/special-characters-in-slack-notifications/114480>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [January 8, 2018, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/special-characters-in-slack-notifications/114480 "2018-01-08T09:27:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![TimTim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timtim/32/5295_2.png) [@TimTim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimTim)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/special-characters-in-slack-notifications/114480/1 "2018-01-08T09:27:07Z")

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The notifications to Slack work just fine, but I need some swedish characters in the messages and seem to get converted into something weird:

innehåll =\> innehBAD+5ll

Using ES 6.1.1.

Before we upgraded we had a ES 2.4 with the exact same watcher notification and that wrote messages just fine in swedish.

Regards,  
Tim

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 11:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/special-characters-in-slack-notifications/114480/2 "2018-01-08T11:25:14Z")

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Hey,

you indeed uncovered a bug, that we just fixed and will be part of the next Elastic Stack release. Sorry for the inconvenience.

--Alex

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**Author:** ![TimTim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timtim/32/5295_2.png) [@TimTim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimTim)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/special-characters-in-slack-notifications/114480/3 "2018-01-08T11:27:01Z")

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OK, thanks for the response, now we just have to sit this one out..... 😃

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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:** [February 5, 2018, 11:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/special-characters-in-slack-notifications/114480/4 "2018-02-05T11:38:28Z")

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