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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

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      Anonymous
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      6 years ago
      • Hi again 
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      • it is strange. On the title line on the x axis the is the text hard coded. So it can't be that the source measure text is the reason for this. It must be something in the encoding an translation back to Power bi. And this also happens with other R visual components on Microsoft visual store