Invalid characters used in text downloaded from external api

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Hi I have script, which downloads texts from external api url and fill this texts into project TextLayer/TextDocument components.I have problem with some glyphs, that are not displyed correctlyfor example string from api (content utf8) is Rázová vlna by DRÉNis displayed in TextDocument as  R√°zov√° vlna by DR√âN part of code is simple: var textProp = layer.property("Source Text");
var textDoc = textProp.value;
textDoc.text = content.value;  // <--- here is content downloaded from api
textProp.setValue(textDoc);  How can I fix this?When I write characters manually all is OK.Data from script are valid characters.Have you some hints for me?

Arie Stavchansky · Accepted Answer

Also, to add to my answer: in your script, you may want to also try setting the appEncoding before executing the system.callSystem() method.

I've tried this for a number of things, but it invariably causes issues with various languages of AE, so if you are building a product that will be installed in many systems, it can wreak havoc:

https://extendscript.docsforadobe.dev/extendscript-tools-features/dollar-object.html#appencoding

Arie Stavchansky · Answer

Where is the data stored for the `content` variable?  Is the data you are retrieving from the API saved to a file?  Or, are you using ExtendScripts sockets implementation (which is quite poor implementation of sockets).  If the data is being saved to a file buffer, that file must be character encoded to UTF-8.  Otherwise, this kind of thing can happen.

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