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unicode text using 'draw text at point.vi'

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Does anyone have an idea how to display Unicode text in a picture control?

here's my code to show the problem:

Unicode.png

Screenshot 2021-04-01 124302.jpg

Thanks

Al

LabVIEW 2016

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Hi Al,

 

read an image of your string indicator (using an invoke node) and paint this into your picture indicator…

Best regards,
GerdW


using LV2016/2019/2021 on Win10/11+cRIO, TestStand2016/2019
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Thanks!

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worked perfectly...

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Prepend the UTF-16LE byte order marker (hex FFFE) to the string.

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You just saved me hours of tinkering and headaches. I wish I'd found your post sooner!


@paul_cardinale wrote:

Prepend the UTF-16LE byte order marker (hex FFFE) to the string.


 

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