# Cannot save memorial file
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cannot-save-memorial-file/2907
**Category:** The Garage
**Created:** [September 2, 2013, 6:24am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cannot-save-memorial-file/2907 "2013-09-02T06:24:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@xap](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/xap)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2013, 6:24am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cannot-save-memorial-file/2907/1 "2013-09-02T06:24:30Z")
It’s happens when I using a translated .mo and a translated random player name.
debug message:
game.cpp[2911]: Could not open memorial file ‘memorial/瑪德琳 強森-Mon Sep 02 13-25-33 2013.txt’
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### Author:  [@Ian\_Strachan](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ian_Strachan)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2013, 6:27am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cannot-save-memorial-file/2907/2 "2013-09-02T06:27:02Z")
I remember getting that message when I had a phantom linebreak in the filename. The OS doesn’t like those characters being in a filename. The save files get around this by base64-encoding the save file names, but that’s not as feasible for memorials as their names and contents are supposed to be human-readable.
Anyone with more knowledge of non-ASCII characters and filenames willing to chip in on this?
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### Author:  [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2013, 3:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cannot-save-memorial-file/2907/3 "2013-09-02T15:15:40Z")
A quick look confirms my suspicion that this just isn’t handled properly in c++/stl, which is why we’re base64 encoding the character saves.
AFAIK the only way around this is to build a blacklist or whitelist of characters, and mangle characters we don’t support.
Aah, of course such a whiteslist exists, it looks like what we want to do is sanitize the string like (python pseudocode because reasons)
for character in name:
if !isgraph(character):
character = ‘\_’
Haven’t tested it, but that’s something like what we want.
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### Author:  [@Ian\_Strachan](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ian_Strachan)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cannot-save-memorial-file/2907/4 "2013-10-21T17:04:54Z")
Sorry to bump this thread, but I have a fix pending for this issue that I simply don’t know how to test.
PR: [https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/3600](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/3600)
If an international user could please verify that this fixes the issue (or tell me how to input Chinese glyphs as a character name) I would appreciate it.