Special characters in Studio UI

Hi,

I am testing the Studio UI elements on a project and the text does not support special characters such as the accents in French (éèàï etc), I have squares instead. I added a .ttf custom font where I can see that the accents are supported but when I import it to the studio, it’s still not working. 8thwall generates a .font8 file with predefined characters.

When I create my own UI with DOM JS and add it to an empty object, there is no problem with the accents, I could keep doing it like this but I want the UI frame and text to stick to the scene and not the camera (the only way I found to have my scripted UI in the AR experience).

Is there a way for the UI to support special characters? Or maybe a way to add HTML element to the UI frame instead of using the text element in studio?

Thank you.

Hi, welcome to the forums!

Currently the UI system in Studio only supports ASCII characters. You can use HTML and CSS in Studio however you won’t be able to do it with 3D UI elements, only overlay.

Hi,

Thank you for your answer, I will keep coding my UI in HTML then.