# Bushes instead of text
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bushes-instead-of-text/112663
**Category:** Data
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [April 8, 2024, 7:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bushes-instead-of-text/112663 "2024-04-08T07:29:11Z")
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### Author:  [@qqs\_qqs](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/qqs_qqs)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2024, 7:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bushes-instead-of-text/112663/1 "2024-04-08T07:29:11Z")
I have this simple (or so I thought) code in which I wanted to generate random texts in files:
z = [“b”, “5”, “x”]
for k in 1:10
how much = rand(3:50)
filename = “job1\_$k.txt”
file = open(filename, “in”)
for i in 1: how much
number\_in = rand(1:8)
line = [z[rand(1:3)] for j in 1:number\_w]
println(file, join(line, " "))
end
close(file)
end
most files are ok, e.g.:
x 5
x 5
b 5 b
x 5 b
but some of them are some bushes:
Image may contain: text that does not contain any information. ⁸‵‵ਵ‵⁸ Image may contain: text that does not contain any information. More Image ਵ
Does anyone know why this happens and how to prevent it?
Regards
qqś
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### Author:  [@barucden](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/barucden)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2024, 7:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bushes-instead-of-text/112663/2 "2024-04-08T07:44:08Z")
Please, revise your post according to
> [@Please read: make it easier to help you](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/please-read-make-it-easier-to-help-you/14757):
>
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The code you posted is not a valid julia code: julia does not allow spaces in variable names. Also, if you intended to submit some images, they are not rendered.
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### Author:  [@qqs\_qqs](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/qqs_qqs)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2024, 8:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bushes-instead-of-text/112663/3 "2024-04-08T08:07:37Z")
ok, sorry
I have this simple (or so I thought) code in which I wanted to generate random texts in files:
z = [“b”, “5”, “x”]
for k in 1:10
ile = rand(3:50)
filename = “zadanie1\_$k.txt”
file = open(filename, “w”)
for i in 1:ile
ile\_w = rand(1:8)
wiersz = [z[rand(1:3)] for j in 1:ile\_w]
println(file, join(wiersz, " "))
end
close(file)
end
most files are ok, e.g.:
x 5
x 5
b 5 b
x 5 b
but some of them are some bushes:
⁸‵⁸‵ਵ‵⁸‵‵‵‵‵‵⁸ਵ‵⁸⁸‵⁸ਵ⁸‵ਵ‵ਵ‵‵‵⁸‵⁸‵‵ਵ‵⁸⁸‵ਵ⁸‵‵‵⁸‵‵‵ਵ‵‵⁸⁸‵⁸‵ਵ‵‵⁸ਵਵ⁸⁸⁸‵ਵ⁸‵‵‵‵⁸⁸‵‵‵⁸‵‵‵ਵ‵⁸⁸ਵ‵‵‵⁸‵‵ਵ
czy ktoś wie, dlaczego się tak dzieje i jak temu zapobiec?
Pozdrawiam
qqś
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### Author:  [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2024, 8:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bushes-instead-of-text/112663/4 "2024-04-08T08:19:05Z")
This are unicode characters that are not present in the character set that your terminal is using. Are you using Windows? If so, please install Windows Terminal: [Windows Terminal installation | Microsoft Learn](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/install)
That might already help. If it doesn’t help you might have to install and use an extra font.
Finally, if you share code, please enclose it in triple back ticks, like this: ```
**Update:** I see you are creating random characters… Well, not are values are defined, so this is to be expected… You must limit the characters to valid values, for example letters and digits…
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Emanuel](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Jeff_Emanuel)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2024, 3:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bushes-instead-of-text/112663/5 "2024-04-10T15:54:05Z")
OP is not generating random code points, but rather trying to generate random samplings from `["b", "5", "x"]`. I don’t see the bug. My wild gueses are that maybe multiple processes are writing to files simultaneously causing corruption, or some external code displaying the contents is not using the proper UTF-8 encoding.