<p>The Plain Text field only supports emojis that the <a href="https://github.com/elvanto/litemoji" rel="nofollow noreferrer">LitEmoji</a> library supports:</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/craftcms/cms/blob/develop/src/fields/PlainText.php#L252" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/craftcms/cms/blob/develop/src/fields/PlainText.php#L252</a></p>
<p>Unfortunately, ✓ currently isn't one of them.</p>

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2021-07-08T12:38:05.313Z
Thanks Brad, any plans on changing that? I just wonder because the Unicode characters are being saved in the title field which is of the same type as a plain text field.
Lars Woehning
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2021-07-08T03:55:17.130Z
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Brad Bell
<p>we have just noticed that characters like ✓ are being saved in the title field but not in plain text fields regardless of the database type (PostgreSQL / MySQL) or field type in the database (text, varchar etc.).</p>
<p>Thanks for your help,
Lars</p>

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Special characters like ✓ are not being saved in text fields
# Special characters like ✓ are not being saved in text fields

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-07-07)

we have just noticed that characters like ✓ are being saved in the title field but not in plain text fields regardless of the database type (PostgreSQL / MySQL) or field type in the database (text, varchar etc.).

Thanks for your help,
Lars

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2021-07-08. Score: 0

The Plain Text field only supports emojis that the [LitEmoji](https://github.com/elvanto/litemoji) library supports:

<https://github.com/craftcms/cms/blob/develop/src/fields/PlainText.php#L252>

Unfortunately, ✓ currently isn't one of them.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Thanks Brad, any plans on changing that? I just wonder because the Unicode characters are being saved in the title field which is of the same type as a plain text field.  

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