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# How to handle non-English characters?

This happens when the barcode text is in a non-Latin-based language, as by default most webpages are only able to display Latin-based languages.

In order to display the barcode text, it is best to do it via the [`getBytes`](https://www.dynamsoft.com/barcode-reader/docs/server/programming/cplusplus/api-reference/barcode-result-item.html#getbytes) of the CBarcodeResultItem. Once the bytes are obtained, you can 'translate' them to a string based on the encoding identifier of the language that you are trying to display.