# Dremio character set 'ISO-8859-1'

**URL:** https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-character-set-iso-8859-1/5172
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [March 5, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-character-set-iso-8859-1/5172 "2020-03-05T18:03:28Z")
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### Author: ![asakmedops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@asakmedops](https://community.dremio.com/u/asakmedops)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-character-set-iso-8859-1/5172/1 "2020-03-05T18:03:28Z")

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I m getting the following error : “Failed to encode ‘NBC Universal – NBC News’ in character set ‘ISO-8859-1’” While running the following query :

SELECT ‘NBC Universal – NBC News’

I have posted same question on stackoverflow with more details [stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59794431/dremio-character-set-iso-8859-1)

Solutions already mentioned on the forum are not working

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### Author: ![asakmedops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@asakmedops](https://community.dremio.com/u/asakmedops)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-character-set-iso-8859-1/5172/2 "2020-03-06T15:43:44Z")

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The only issue with other responses posted , is that $ in the config needs to be escaped :

> DREMIO\_JAVA\_SERVER\_EXTRA\_OPTS=“-Dsaffron.default.charset=UTF-16LE -Dsaffron.default.nationalcharset=UTF-16LE -Dsaffron.default.collation.name=UTF-16LE\$en\_US”