# german umlaut in .nii file names

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/german-umlaut-in-nii-file-names/9732>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** file-import\
**Created:** [January 8, 2020, 1:34am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/german-umlaut-in-nii-file-names/9732 "2020-01-08T01:34:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![tsinesh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/tsinesh/32/16670_2.png) [@tsinesh](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/tsinesh)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 1:34am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/german-umlaut-in-nii-file-names/9732/1 "2020-01-08T01:34:41Z")

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Problem report for Slicer 4.11.0-2019-12-06 win-amd64: [please describe expected and actual behavior]

If a file name contain german umlaute (e.g. fred\_lütte.nii) the “load data” =\> “choose filet o add” function can not load or show the file.

the log contain:

vtkITKArchetypeImageSeriesReader::ExecuteInformation: Archetype file C:/Users/noname/Documents/tmp/fred\_lütte.nii.nii does not exist.

Algorithm vtkITKArchetypeDiffusionTensorImageReaderFile(00000175F06C7DE0) returned failure for request: vtkInformation (0000017591AD5DD0)  
Debug: Off  
Modified Time: 26086432  
Reference Count: 1  
Registered Events: (none)  
Request: REQUEST\_INFORMATION  
FORWARD\_DIRECTION: 0  
ALGORITHM\_AFTER\_FORWARD: 1

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 3:04am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/german-umlaut-in-nii-file-names/9732/2 "2020-01-08T03:04:13Z")

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Currently, Slicer is only guaranteed to be able save/load files that only has ASCII characters in their full path.