# Can't use Chinese characters

**URL:** https://forum.flowable.org/t/cant-use-chinese-characters/1706
**Category:** Flowable Application
**Created:** [March 2, 2018, 1:14am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/cant-use-chinese-characters/1706 "2018-03-02T01:14:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![ziwenzhao](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.flowable.org/ziwenzhao/32/491_2.png) [@ziwenzhao](https://forum.flowable.org/u/ziwenzhao)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2018, 1:14am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/cant-use-chinese-characters/1706/1 "2018-03-02T01:14:49Z")

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Hi, I can‘t use Chinese characters in flowable-modeler UI application. For example, if the properties of tasks have some Chinese characters, it cannot be saved.  
Any solutions suggested? Thanks.

Regards,  
Ziwen

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### Author: ![yvo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.flowable.org/yvo/32/2231_2.png) [@yvo](https://forum.flowable.org/u/yvo)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2018, 8:08am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/cant-use-chinese-characters/1706/2 "2018-03-02T08:08:59Z")

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Hi,

do you get an error?  
Could it be the encoding setting of your servlet container?

(Because I’m able to running the latest version)

Regards,

Yvo

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### Author: ![ziwenzhao](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.flowable.org/ziwenzhao/32/491_2.png) [@ziwenzhao](https://forum.flowable.org/u/ziwenzhao)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/cant-use-chinese-characters/1706/3 "2018-03-04T18:59:43Z")

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![43](https://cdck-file-uploads-canada1.s3.dualstack.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/flex035/uploads/flowable/original/1X/ce8f62e3cd51fa83bdba39579706b8daf6fd3573.png)  
As you see from the snapshot, I give it a Chinese name and the process model cannot be saved. Anywhere I used Chinese characters, it can not be saved to the database.  
This is the latest version 6.2.1 that I tested.

Regards,  
Ziwen

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### Author: ![yvo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.flowable.org/yvo/32/2231_2.png) [@yvo](https://forum.flowable.org/u/yvo)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/cant-use-chinese-characters/1706/4 "2018-03-13T14:41:16Z")

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I’m able to save a model with Chinese characters.

![24](https://cdck-file-uploads-canada1.s3.dualstack.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/flex035/uploads/flowable/original/1X/c54c19cc007f723609b03422a4af40095bc09daf.png)

Do you get a stack trace?