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6 years ago

Power BI Custom Visual in R problem with international characters

Hi   I am developing a Power BI Custom Visual R html. Everything works fine except when writing international characters like the norwegian letters æ ø å it looks terrible. It actually comes out in...
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lbendlin
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6 years ago

That sounds like you use 1252 (Western) character set when you should be using 65001 (UTF-8)

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    6 years ago

    hi again I have added some more details about my case you responded. I can perhaps look at the new added information to see if there are anything you can look at.

     

    regards geir

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      lbendlin
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      6 years ago

      I think you want to look at your source data. The encoding may already be broken at the source.

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        Anonymous
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        6 years ago

         

        Here you can see my code run in RStudio. The data is dumped from the Power BI desktop. Here you can see the legends and the x axis title are showing the characters correctly. It can be that when the custom component run the code and receiving the data. It can be different. But I don't know if it is possible to debug the R code in Visual Code when hitting the refresh button in my power bi report. I don't know how to discover this except make my code write to a file