# Continua can't recognize Chinese Characters in file name
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/continua-cant-recognize-chinese-characters-in-file-name/6078
**Category:** Bugs
**Created:** [January 16, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/continua-cant-recognize-chinese-characters-in-file-name/6078 "2017-01-16T05:06:27Z")
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### Author:  [@xiuhong.xiang](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/xiuhong.xiang)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/continua-cant-recognize-chinese-characters-in-file-name/6078/1 "2017-01-16T05:06:27Z")
I am using Continua 1.8.1.247, after added some files with Chinese characters in file name to the Subversion, the changes with those files exists in Subversion can’t be gotten by continua and it shows following error: Running C:\Program Files\VSoft Technologies\ContinuaCI\Server\hg\hg.exe with arguments “commit -m “Automated commit by Continua CI from “xx” repository for revision ‘603907’. Comment: can build now.” --addremove -X .svn -X \*\*.svn -R E:\Continua\Rc\1cc1e3c3 --config ui.ignore=E:\Continua\Rc\1cc1e3c3.hgIgnore --config ui.username=Continua --noninteractive --encoding cp1252” on server failed with return code 255 and error output: "adding schema\mssql\_upg102\_103.sql … adding test\SmokeTests\UIComparisonTest\Screenshots\FireFox\SummaryInMyTaskOpenTaskDirectApprove.png removing test\SmokeTests\UIComparisonTest\Screenshots\Iphone\Chrome\InstanceMonitoringInstanceDetail.png removing test\SmokeTests\UIComparisonTest\Screenshots\Iphone\Chrome\InstanceMonitoringPage.png abort: filename contains ‘?’, which is reserved on Windows: ‘test/SmokeTests/SmokeTests/Files/Report Download/ChineseSimplified/FireFox/OperationalDashboard\_DrilldownActions\_???.xlsx’ " [Resolve]
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### Author:  [@xiuhong.xiang](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/xiuhong.xiang)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2017, 5:12am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/continua-cant-recognize-chinese-characters-in-file-name/6078/2 "2017-01-16T05:12:03Z")
> Posted By [xiuhong xiang](https://www.finalbuilder.com/user-profile/userid/19848) on 16 Jan 2017 10:06 AM
> I am using Continua 1.8.1.247, after added some files with Chinese characters in file name to the Subversion, the changes with those files exists in Subversion can't be gotten by continua and it shows following error: Running C:\Program Files\VSoft Technologies\ContinuaCI\Server\hg\hg.exe with arguments "commit -m "Automated commit by Continua CI from "xx" repository for revision '603907'. Comment: can build now." --addremove -X .svn -X \*\*\.svn -R E:\Continua\Rc\1cc1e3c3 --config ui.ignore=E:\Continua\Rc\1cc1e3c3\.hgIgnore --config ui.username=Continua --noninteractive --encoding cp1252" on server failed with return code 255 and error output: "adding schema\mssql\_upg102\_103.sql ... adding test\SmokeTests\UIComparisonTest\Screenshots\FireFox\SummaryInMyTaskOpenTaskDirectApprove.png removing test\SmokeTests\UIComparisonTest\Screenshots\Iphone\Chrome\InstanceMonitoringInstanceDetail.png removing test\SmokeTests\UIComparisonTest\Screenshots\Iphone\Chrome\InstanceMonitoringPage.png abort: filename contains '?', which is reserved on Windows: 'test/SmokeTests/SmokeTests/Files/Report Download/ChineseSimplified/FireFox/OperationalDashboard\_DrilldownActions\_??????????????.xlsx' " [Resolve]
The file name is "OperationalDashboard\_DrilldownActions\_准时的任务.csv"
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### Author:  [@Sparky](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Sparky)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2017, 6:34am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/continua-cant-recognize-chinese-characters-in-file-name/6078/3 "2017-01-17T06:34:54Z")
Hi xiuhong xiang,
We use [Mercurial](https://www.mercurial-scm.org/) for transporting files differences from the server to the agent. Unfortunately, we have not been able to get Mercurial to work with file paths using Chinese characters on Windows. We have previously spent sometime looking into possible solutions and we will look into this again in the future. Meanwhile you will need to rename the file and reset the repository to get this working again.