Wrong character encoding in ScriptUI panel

Hi @marbay ,

I see something similar with ScriptUI. However, I do not think it's an issue with UTF-8 with or without BOM.

So my post is meant for people who cannot solve the issue by using UTF-8 with BOM.

I see the issue with InDesign 2023 on macOS. Had no chance to test it with Windows as well. Will do later…

Two cases:

[1] My string contains the German word "Maße" and shows up as "Ma√üe" in one of my ScriptUI "edittext" fields.

[2] In the same script "Maße" shows up as "Maße" in a different ScriptUI "edittext" field as it should be.

Here comes the difference:

In case [1] the string is extracted from an IDMS file using ExtendScript (JavaScript) XML's xpath() method.

I open the IDMS file with file.open("r") and write its contents to a variable with file.read().

Then the string is used with new XML(string) where xpath() is fetching a distinct attribute in the code; "Maße" is part of an XML attribute in the IDMS file. ( I cannot change that, e.g. using a double s for the ß, because I have no say how the attributes are defined.)

In case [2] the string is written from an InDesign's text frame contents property. No issue with that using it as contents of a ScriptUI "edittext" field.

Not tested yet:

As a workaroud I will substitute "√ü" with "ß" before assigning the extracted text to the "edittext" field.

I'll do that also for any transformed umlauts that will show up in XML attribute definitions.

Thank you for bringing up the issue, Martin!

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )