# UI text UTF coding

**URL:** <https://forum.8thwall.com/t/ui-text-utf-coding/6648>\
**Category:** Technical Support\
**Tags:** studio\
**Created:** [May 26, 2025, 9:48am UTC](https://forum.8thwall.com/t/ui-text-utf-coding/6648 "2025-05-26T09:48:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Ricardo\_Flores](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Ricardo\_Flores](https://forum.8thwall.com/u/Ricardo_Flores)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 9:48am UTC](https://forum.8thwall.com/t/ui-text-utf-coding/6648/1 "2025-05-26T09:48:30Z")

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How can I edit the UTF code to support Portuguese characters like ~?  
Right now if I create an UI text element i’m unable to use portuguese character correctly, on the inspector the text is correct but on the text Ui element its not

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**Author:** ![GeorgeButler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.8thwall.com/georgebutler/32/1903_2.png) [@GeorgeButler](https://forum.8thwall.com/u/GeorgeButler)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.8thwall.com/t/ui-text-utf-coding/6648/2 "2025-05-27T22:03:35Z")

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Can you share the exact text string you’re seeing the issue with?

Like this: `This is my example`

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**Author:** ![Ricardo\_Flores](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Ricardo\_Flores](https://forum.8thwall.com/u/Ricardo_Flores)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.8thwall.com/t/ui-text-utf-coding/6648/3 "2025-05-28T16:40:45Z")

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> [@GeorgeButler](#):
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> are the exact text string you’re seeing the issue with?

So the text is: “Leão” and either on overlay or 3D shows at Leo

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**Author:** ![Ricardo\_Flores](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Ricardo\_Flores](https://forum.8thwall.com/u/Ricardo_Flores)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.8thwall.com/t/ui-text-utf-coding/6648/4 "2025-05-28T16:41:39Z")

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Already tried to upload a font and select that font but the result is the same

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**Author:** ![GeorgeButler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.8thwall.com/georgebutler/32/1903_2.png) [@GeorgeButler](https://forum.8thwall.com/u/GeorgeButler)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.8thwall.com/t/ui-text-utf-coding/6648/5 "2025-05-28T17:04:55Z")

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Just talked over this with the engineering team and it looks like there’s still some work that needs to go in before the UI system can support non-ASCII characters.

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**Author:** ![Ricardo\_Flores](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Ricardo\_Flores](https://forum.8thwall.com/u/Ricardo_Flores)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.8thwall.com/t/ui-text-utf-coding/6648/6 "2025-05-28T17:16:09Z")

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understood, we will use png for text for now