topic Re: Cyrillic characters in R custom visuals in Developer

Cyrillic characters in R custom visuals

kral_06 — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:31:11 GMT

Hi everyone.

I have created a custom visual using R. It works fine but it does not show cyrillic characteres properly. I've tried adding "Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "russian")" to the code in script.r but unfortunately it does not help. I have cyrillic characters both in my data and my code (adding axis labels in Russian).

Is there any way to fix this?

Re: Cyrillic characters in R custom visuals

v-viig — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 08:05:51 GMT

We'll discuss this issue with R-script developers and get back with an answer.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

Re: Cyrillic characters in R custom visuals

v-viig — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 06:50:06 GMT

We've got details for R devs.

If seems you have to explicitly use a font that supports Cyrillic characters.

If you're in Power BI Desktop you have to choose the appropriate font and use par(family = powerbi_rFamilyFontName) as in service.

If you're in Power BI Service, you have to override powerbi_rFamilyFontName to be the font name and r_powerbiFontName to be the font file name (as font name with .ttf extension).

Please let us know if this solution solves the issue.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

Re: Cyrillic characters in R custom visuals

kral_06 — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 16:37:50 GMT

@v-viig, thank you very much for your reply.

I did not understand how and where I should specify the font. Could you give an example or more detailed instructions?

Re: Cyrillic characters in R custom visuals

v-viig — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 10:05:47 GMT

We'd recommend to contact pbircvsupport@microsoft.com to get this issue resolved.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com