# Liquibase 4 UTF-8 not recognized

**URL:** <https://forum.liquibase.org/t/liquibase-4-utf-8-not-recognized/4944>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [January 6, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/liquibase-4-utf-8-not-recognized/4944 "2021-01-06T15:36:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ludek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@ludek](https://forum.liquibase.org/u/ludek)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/liquibase-4-utf-8-not-recognized/4944/1 "2021-01-06T15:36:48Z")

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After upgrade from last Liquibase 3 to version 4, now UTF-8 files containing special characters ( like é ) does not process those charasters correctly and some strange chars are inserted into Oracle instead. If the file is encoded into UTF8 BOM, then it is inserted correctly. I cannot find any change description about this. Is this bug or feature?

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**Author:** ![ronak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.liquibase.org/ronak/32/221_2.png) [@ronak](https://forum.liquibase.org/u/ronak)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/liquibase-4-utf-8-not-recognized/4944/2 "2021-01-08T17:11:22Z")

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@ludek ,

Hmm good question, let me include one of our Product folks @mariochampion who should know the answer.

Thanks,

Ronak

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**Author:** ![liup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f0a364/32.png) [@liup](https://forum.liquibase.org/u/liup)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/liquibase-4-utf-8-not-recognized/4944/3 "2022-03-10T13:40:58Z")

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Any solutions for this problem?