Touch Engine Plugin for UE4 Arabic text in DATS

General TouchDesigner Discussion
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Hi

So I’m trying to pass arabic text via a DAT in unreal from touch designer.

All I get is question marks… I’ve got arabic 3d text working in Unreal when I just copy paste from TD to Unreal just cant get it working with DATS.

I have a plan B to render the text in TD and just send TOPS but wanted to check if it was something easy to fix…

Thanks

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Hey @technickirl

I’ve logged an issue in our issue tracker for a developer to look into it.

Text is passed without issues within TouchDesigner’s Engine COMP, so it looks like the issue is on the plugin’s end.

Thanks,
Michel

TE-UE4#92

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Thanks.

I was about to test with an engine comp so you’ve saved me some time!

Out of interest as a Plan C should sending Arabic via OSC work as far as you know?

Nick

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The OSC standard in theory only supports ASCII text. I think on our side we treat it as UTF8, so that would work on our side, but it depends on what plugin you are using to send the OSC