# Dubious Special Characters in Company Names on CHS

**URL:** <http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/dubious-special-characters-in-company-names-on-chs/7085>\
**Category:** Data Issues\
**Created:** [November 5, 2023, 12:17pm UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/dubious-special-characters-in-company-names-on-chs/7085 "2023-11-05T12:17:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![mh.hunt](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mh.hunt](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/mh.hunt)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 12:17pm UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/dubious-special-characters-in-company-names-on-chs/7085/1 "2023-11-05T12:17:56Z")

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Hello, I was looking at company names that have Special Character included in their name(s) and found these examples that appear incorrect on CHS;

Company number **CE019423** : PG CHILDREN FOUNDATION  
For this one and in line with the picture of the entry from the Charities Commission the name is;

![image](http://discourselive.s3.dualstack.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/b24eda75f8fa43acd5eafc6a9da8a3ab48598e45.png)

A similar issue was also found for;  
Company number **CE018091** : YOUR CANCER CAF, NAILSEA

The name on the Charities Commission is;  
YOUR CANCER CAFÉ, NAILSEA

Understand these are only Index listings on CHS (and these two examples are likely not the full extent of the issue), but felt it worth a mention to you.

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**Author:** ![MArkWilliams](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/user_avatar/forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/markwilliams/32/194_2.png) [@MArkWilliams](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/MArkWilliams)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 4:30pm UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/dubious-special-characters-in-company-names-on-chs/7085/2 "2023-11-27T16:30:58Z")

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thanks for taking the time to report these.  
I have passed the details onto the appropriate IT team to investigate.