Does CEP 5 (Bridge CC custom panel) support non-ascii characters?

Hi there,

We have a startup script (javascript) that creates a panel in Adobe Bridge CC (currently using CC 2018 but planning to move to 2019 soon). This panel and script helps us capture metadata into images and also a create new version of images from the selected image.

We are in the process of changing this to a CEP 5 panel and associated javascript, but we seem to have a problem with non-ascii characters. For instance we have a field in the panel to capture metadata into an image - if we type in a unicode character outside the main '128 ascii character set' it gets converted to ?? question marks and so the not stored correctly in the image metadata. We have noticed this problem with the © symbol, — longer dash, and also smart/curly quote.

It seems that when the JSX is loaded into the CEP panel, it is not treated as unicode?

Is this a limitation of CEP or are we doing something wrong in our script? Does anyone else have this problem or do unicode characters work fine for you?

Thanks so much in advance for your help.

All the best, Lee