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kral_06
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

Cyrillic characters in R custom visuals

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 scri...
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v-viig
Community Champion
8 years ago

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

 

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

 

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

[email protected]

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    v-viig
    Community Champion
    8 years ago

    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

    [email protected]

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      kral_06
      Frequent Visitor
      8 years ago

      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?

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        v-viig
        Community Champion
        8 years ago

        We'd recommend to contact [email protected] to get this issue resolved.

         

        Ignat Vilesov,

        Software Engineer

         

        Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

        [email protected]