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from Rest API response, in description field has a  hyphen  which appears as a weird
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from Rest API response, in description field has a  hyphen  which appears as a weird symbol in UI


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2026-02-26 06-29-24
Rahul
 
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Hi ,

The most likely cause is character encoding or a Unicode dash character in the REST API response.

First, check the raw API response in Postman. If the character is already incorrect there, the issue is with the API/source data or encoding.

If the API response is correct but OutSystems displays it incorrectly, check that the API response uses UTF-8 encoding (application/json; charset=utf-8).

Also verify whether it is actually a normal hyphen - or another Unicode character such as – (en dash) or — (em dash).

As a workaround, you can normalize the character in OutSystems using Replace(), but ideally the encoding/source data should be fixed.

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