Reviews show Unicode codes instead of characters
Accented letters, apostrophes and non-Latin names in reviews are saved or shown as raw Unicode codes.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 12 June 2022 · last reported 3 November 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners running Italian, Arabic and Japanese sites report that reviewer names and review text show up as raw Unicode codes or scrambled characters.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.