# Question characters in my buttons
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/question-characters-in-my-buttons/8551
**Category:** Dashboard
**Created:** [3 March 2019 12:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/question-characters-in-my-buttons/8551 "2019-03-03T12:28:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Soft4](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Soft4)
#### Post date: [3 March 2019 12:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/question-characters-in-my-buttons/8551/1 "2019-03-03T12:28:22Z")
I have imported my flow into a new node red environment and all of a sudden I have question characters in my buttons. I also suddenly have my group title linked to my dashboard title.
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### Author:  [@hotNipi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hotNipi)
#### Post date: [3 March 2019 12:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/question-characters-in-my-buttons/8551/2 "2019-03-03T12:34:46Z")
Different system regional & language settings on machines?
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### Author:  [@Soft4](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Soft4)
#### Post date: [3 March 2019 12:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/question-characters-in-my-buttons/8551/3 "2019-03-03T12:37:29Z")
I do indeed have one machine on Dutch and the other on English. What is the solution for this.
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### Author:  [@hotNipi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hotNipi)
#### Post date: [3 March 2019 12:46 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/question-characters-in-my-buttons/8551/4 "2019-03-03T12:46:54Z")
I've seen it once and then I fixed all strings manually. There wasn't too many of them so it was reasonable to do. Don't know if there is any simple workaround.
> [@Soft4](#):
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> group title linked to my dashboard title
Might be different dashboard versions?
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### Author:  [@Soft4](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Soft4)
#### Post date: [3 March 2019 12:50 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/question-characters-in-my-buttons/8551/5 "2019-03-03T12:50:57Z")
Okay the problems are in the used strings. But is that also the explanation for merging the titles?
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### Author:  [@Soft4](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Soft4)
#### Post date: [3 March 2019 12:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/question-characters-in-my-buttons/8551/6 "2019-03-03T12:54:57Z")
Dashboard version are the same. But I work with node red version v0.19.4 and v0.19.6 can there be a problem?
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### Author:  [@hotNipi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hotNipi)
#### Post date: [3 March 2019 13:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/question-characters-in-my-buttons/8551/7 "2019-03-03T13:01:25Z")
For me as the default user it's hard to tell. The evolution of Node-Red has been quite rapid lately so it might be. Real answer needs deep analyse of guys with core level knowledge. .
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### Author:  [@Soft4](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Soft4)
#### Post date: [3 March 2019 13:05 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/question-characters-in-my-buttons/8551/8 "2019-03-03T13:05:30Z")
Thank you. Maybe one of these guys has a solution. I'll wait a while. Is it easy to change version if you want to go back.
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### Author:  [@Soft4](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Soft4)
#### Post date: [3 March 2019 13:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/question-characters-in-my-buttons/8551/9 "2019-03-03T13:18:19Z")
Problems with question marks have indeed been resolved. I had worked with "xxx" instead of "xxx".
msg7 = {"Label": global.get("Save")||0};
msg7 = {"Label": global.get('Save')||0};
I will just check my code for more of these problems.
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### Author:  [@Soft4](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Soft4)
#### Post date: [3 March 2019 13:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/question-characters-in-my-buttons/8551/10 "2019-03-03T13:23:03Z")
With this adjustment of the string, the merging of the titles is also solved. Very strange.
So problem solved, case closed
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### Author:  [@JeroenKokhuis](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JeroenKokhuis)
#### Post date: [30 August 2020 11:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/question-characters-in-my-buttons/8551/11 "2020-08-30T11:45:05Z")
Hello,
I'm having the same problem:
But when I right click on Inspect and look for this question mark it shows me the link too the icon (lightbulb). As you can see the icon is alsow showing.
Any ideas?
This is my flow:
```auto
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","tooltip":"","color":"","bgcolor":"","icon":"","payload":"","payloadType":"str","topic":"","x":640,"y":340,"wires":[["a34c08b5.39dff8"]]},{"id":"1e7fd35f.35bbdd","type":"mqtt in","z":"ad80e500.3c7e98","name":"MQTT receiver light","topic":"homie/homey-5d14b942367eb80ccf0c77c3/keuken-links/onoff","qos":"2","datatype":"auto","broker":"a4ac80e1.bc5fe","x":190,"y":340,"wires":[["b7cea645.8f8158"]]},{"id":"b7cea645.8f8158","type":"function","z":"ad80e500.3c7e98","name":"Kleur en icoon","func":"if(msg.payload === \"true\"){\n msg.ui_control = {icon:\"icons/light-bulb-on-60.png\"};\n}\n\nelse{\n msg.ui_control = {icon:\"icons/light-bulb-off-60.png\"};\n}\nreturn [msg];","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"initialize":"","finalize":"","x":420,"y":340,"wires":[["8b1297ab.a3aab8","e91749be.7ef018"]]},{"id":"19017b62.47b395","type":"mqtt out","z":"ad80e500.3c7e98","name":"MQTT Transmitter","topic":"homie/homey-5d14b942367eb80ccf0c77c3/keuken-links/onoff/set","qos":"","retain":"","broker":"a4ac80e1.bc5fe","x":1030,"y":340,"wires":[]},{"id":"e91749be.7ef018","type":"debug","z":"ad80e500.3c7e98","name":"Keuken links","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"true","targetType":"full","statusVal":"","statusType":"auto","x":690,"y":400,"wires":[]},{"id":"b290cc21.d734d","type":"ui_group","z":"","name":"Buttons","tab":"2a0bd1d7.7ca9ce","order":1,"disp":false,"width":30,"collapse":false},{"id":"a4ac80e1.bc5fe","type":"mqtt-broker","z":"","name":"Homey MQTT","broker":"192.168.1.6","port":"1883","clientid":"","usetls":false,"compatmode":true,"keepalive":"60","cleansession":true,"birthTopic":"","birthQos":"0","birthPayload":"","closeTopic":"","closeQos":"0","closePayload":"","willTopic":"","willQos":"0","willPayload":""},{"id":"2a0bd1d7.7ca9ce","type":"ui_tab","z":"","name":"Tab3","icon":"dashboard","order":3,"disabled":false,"hidden":false}]
```