https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/general/14104/issues-with-special-characterHello All, We are getting some inputs from external sources and recently we discovered that appian is giving error for some special characters while decoding those characters. One such character is &quot;&quot; which corresponds to something like EMs in notepaden-USTelligent Community 12https://community.appian.com/thread/63918?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 09 Jan 2019 14:09:58 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:feb5598a-edaa-4a9e-be8a-edea7577e576viveku3486Hi David,<br /> <br /> Thank you for reply. This approach seems to be working in my case<div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/63899?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 08 Jan 2019 14:37:36 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:631a5562-91fe-4392-ae42-f839ad1127d9davel001150Options include regex functions if you have the plugin, cleanwith(), or more probably in your case simply clean() function applied to the incoming text either before you save it or just before you display it, or if that particular pair of characters is giving you problems, substitute() function<div style="clear:both;"></div>