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Unicode displayed as integers in tooltip when produced by ggplotly()

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Description

Hi,

When using ggplotly to create the graph, the tooltip shows the information as integers.
plot_ly working fine.

library(ggplot2)
library(plotly)
p <- ggplot(cars)+
  geom_point(aes(1, 1, color = "اختبار"))
ggplotly(p)

Note: reprex encode unicode as ?????
Many thanks

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Start by running the provided R example with ggplot2 and plotly, comparing ggplotly(p) with the working plot_ly case. Trace the ggplotly conversion and tooltip data path; done means the Arabic color label appears as Unicode text in the tooltip instead of integer values.

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Tech stack
r
Domain
data-visualization
Issue type
Bug
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3/5
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