# Can't create poll with some Chinese options

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-poll-with-some-chinese-options/170836>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [November 21, 2020, 8:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-poll-with-some-chinese-options/170836 "2020-11-21T08:17:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-poll-with-some-chinese-options/170836/2 "2020-11-23T00:03:48Z")

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> [@chenyxuan](#):
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> I fixed this by forcing a conversion to UTF-8 “bytes” and made a PR to your official repo.

Thank You!

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11315/files](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11315/files)

Change looks safe, but we need to confirm that there are no backwards compatibility concerns here. @zogstrip can you have a quick look at the PR?

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