# Special Characters saving issue in Elastic Search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/special-characters-saving-issue-in-elastic-search/92947>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 13, 2017, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/special-characters-saving-issue-in-elastic-search/92947 "2017-07-13T07:07:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![AnithaLingam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e5b9ba/32.png) [@AnithaLingam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AnithaLingam)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/special-characters-saving-issue-in-elastic-search/92947/1 "2017-07-13T07:07:52Z")

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Hi Team,

I am trying to save the special character '%' in Elastic Search but it is not saving correctly in Elastic Search.

Here is my log message : "Like '%12:00AM%' OR"

Elastic Search saved message: "Like ':00AM%' OR"

'%12:00AM% word is saving as ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/d/9d8f1a7eefe3ce5da83147adc5e31b9e6f695954.png)  
Can you please look into this.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![polyfractal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/polyfractal/32/48162_2.png) [@polyfractal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/polyfractal)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/special-characters-saving-issue-in-elastic-search/92947/2 "2017-07-21T13:43:46Z")

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Can you provide the `_source` of the document when you do a GET request? E.g.

`GET /my_index/my_type/123`

I suspect this is something wrong with the UI you are using to consume the data, rather than Elasticsearch itself. ES doesn't care about the characters in a string as long as they are escaped properly.

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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:** [August 18, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/special-characters-saving-issue-in-elastic-search/92947/3 "2017-08-18T13:44:14Z")

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