Issues with characters after load data

[MARISA INACIO1]

Hello everyone,

After performing a Load Data into an Import Set, there are certain characters that ServiceNow fails to read.
These are Portuguese characters.
However, for example, sometimes it reads the character "ê" correctly and other times it does not, which causes ServiceNow to create new columns and the Transform Map stops working.

I think this behavior might be related to ASCII character handling, but I do not know which character set ServiceNow uses internally.

I cannot find any official ServiceNow documentation explaining this behavior. Can you help?
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Thanks in advance,

Marisa

[MARISA INACIO1]

Additionally, I identified that this issue started after we upgraded to the Xanadu release in March 2025. After the upgrade, ServiceNow began creating new columns for all Import Set tables that contain special characters in the column names.

[GlideFather · Accepted solution]

Olá @MARISA INACIO1,

this is very specific use case, a potential workaround would be to use "e" instead of "ê" in both the excel sheet as well as the import set labels...

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But due to the nature of this issue, I have no ideas how to prevent this from happening. If it is client's environment (and not a PDI), then go to Support Portal and create a case for ServiceNow to assist you: https://support.servicenow.com/now 

The more if it is potentially related to a version upgrade... perhaps the fix will take ages but at least ServiceNow team will be informed about it, sometimes there are bugs that they are not aware of it and this might be one of them.

Sorry for not being of a better help here 😕

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@MARISA INACIO1 

this is a good use-case which ServiceNow support team need to investigate as to what changed recently.

Please raise a case with ServiceNow team and do share us the updates.

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