Encoding in dialog boxes

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Issue type
Bug
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Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start by reproducing the problem with showPrompt() and Swedish characters such as å, ä, and ö. Trace how the dialog text is encoded and identify where it becomes U+FFFD; done means these characters appear correctly in the dialog boxes.

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Description

I ran into problems using Swedish letters in the dialog boxes such as the showPrompt(). The letters (e.g. å ä ö Å Ä Ö) are replaced by the unicode U+FFFD replacement character. I have tried changing locale to US, converting the text to UTF-8 etc. but have had no success.

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