DaveC here, I'm the Unicode dude on the AE team.
So yeah, I hear what you're saying. You're right: under certain circumstances, we decoupled AE from the setting in your system preferences: in v24, it is currently not supported to switch to the Unicode "code page". We're actually working very hard on bringing AE into the modern age by making it 100% unicode, regardless of system setting. Stay tuned! Any language or script system that you use in your MOGRTs and DropDownMenuEffects should "just w
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