# Map

Configuration item for mapping symbol names.

## map-character

**Type**: Character

**Default**: `’ '`` (space)

Caplin’s Real Time Text Protocol (RTTP) uses the '/' character as a separator, but Refinitiv uses the '/' character in symbol names. To prevent RTTP processing from interpreting the '/' character in a Refinitiv symbol as a separator, front-end applications replace the '/' in a symbol name with a placeholder character (`map-character`) unused by either RTTP or Refinitiv. The TREP adapter replaces the placeholder (`map-character`) with the original '/' character when communicating with Refinitiv.

**Example: specifying a space (default)**

```
map-character ' '
```