R Visual not displaying Thai or chinese characters in output

[Anonymous]

HI,

  I have created a R Visual to call API which has input passed as thai characters and json output gets thai characters as output. after retrieving output in r visual thai characters are displayed as blank. i tried changing regional settings to thai but it doenst works. Please suggest some solution.

THanks

Vivek

[v-xicai]

Hi @Anonymous  ,

Does that make sense? If so, kindly mark my answer as a solution to help others having the similar issue and close the case. If not, let me know and I'll try to help you further.

Best regards

Amy

[Anonymous]

I used showtext(auto) with powerbi_rEnableShowTextForCJKLanguages = 1and it is displayed as square symbols but not displaying thai characters still.

Thanks

Vivek

[v-xicai]

Hi @Anonymous ,

You may change data type of each field that contains the Thai character from text to "Using locale".

Reference:

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Thai-character-change-to-after-refresh-dataset-via-app-powerbi/td-p/359059,

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/visuals/service-r-visuals .

Best Regards,

Amy

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