# Special Characters
source: https://developer.mastercard.com/ob-accept-payments/documentation/developer-support/api-basics/special-characters/index.md

There is no consistent approach to special characters in reference and name fields among banks. For example, different banks support different subsets of special characters.

Most of the banks support the following characters: `" "` (space), `"."` (dot), `"-"` (hyphen).