# Illegal Characters in Dynamics GP

- URL: https://dynamicaccounting.net/illegal-characters-in-dynamics-gp/
- Date: 2009-06-25
- Topics: Off-Topic & Miscellaneous
- Type: link to an external article
- Source: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/developingfordynamicsgp/2009/06/21/microsoft-dynamics-gp-and-illegal-characters-part-1/

No, David Musgrave not talking about immigration or unlawful users in his latest set of posts. In a two part series, [Dave takes on illegal characters in Dynamics GP](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/developingfordynamicsgp/2009/06/21/microsoft-dynamics-gp-and-illegal-characters-part-1/). There are times when quotes, backward single quotes and carriage returns can really screw up your data and David tackles dealing with these issues. [Mariano Gomez has also jumped](http://dynamicsgpblogster.blogspot.com/2009/06/fixing-microsoft-dynamics-gp-and.html) in with his own take on this issue.

I’ve seen issue this mostly with importing and exporting data. We had one import that added a carriage return to the end of a ton of master records. The data looked correct on the screen but would be blank on reports. That was fun to find and fix.