# Strange characters **URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/strange-characters/11380 **Category:** Report a Bug **Created:** [June 24, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/strange-characters/11380 "2020-06-24T18:52:39Z") **Posts on this page:** 4 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![adelhammoud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/adelhammoud/32/5587_2.png) [@adelhammoud](https://community.glideapps.com/u/adelhammoud) #### Post date: [June 24, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/strange-characters/11380/1 "2020-06-24T18:52:39Z")
I added a simple relation in one tab for some of the empty cells in google-sheet, I am getting these strange characters in the DataEditor view! (no impact to their subsequent lookups) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/2X/b/bab4a5e88af689b572c8e23255c103b29b1b6a95.png) ---
### Author: ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh) #### Post date: [June 24, 2020, 10:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/strange-characters/11380/2 "2020-06-24T22:40:22Z")
What is the first column of the sheet you’re trying to make the relation to? ---
### Author: ![adelhammoud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/adelhammoud/32/5587_2.png) [@adelhammoud](https://community.glideapps.com/u/adelhammoud) #### Post date: [June 25, 2020, 5:24am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/strange-characters/11380/3 "2020-06-25T05:24:17Z")
a text column ---
### Author: ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager) #### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/strange-characters/11380/4 "2020-06-27T14:26:25Z")
You have no column cells anywhere in your sheet that contain those characters?