Accented characters not showing when loading stimulis from a csv

Silk

Hi everyone,

I have a very simple issue: I have written stimuli in a csv file, each containing accented characters such as "é", "â", "ç", etc. The file is formatted in UTF-8 so there shouldn't be any issue to display these characters. But when I try to display the stimulus with an inline html I get those classic weird combinations of characters indicating that the accented character was not recognized (e.g. "è" instead of "è").

Does anyone know how to resolve this? I've attached a minimal working example showing my issue with this post.

special_chara_not_showing.osexp

Thanks,

Silk

sebastiaan

Hi @Silk ,

Thanks for pointing this out. I have to look into what causes this. Can you confirm that this happens on Windows only?

For now, you can use HTML character codes instead. For example, é corresponds to 'é'. For a full list, see:

• https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/named-characters.html#named-character-references

— Sebastiaan

Silk

Hi @sebastiaan

Sorry for the very late reply. Yes, I made some tests and it only happens on Windows. It seems like the csv file is read with the ANSI (Windows 1252) encoding, which explains why UTF-8 characters are not showing properly.

Silk--

sebastiaan

Hi @Silk ,

If you update OSWeb through the automatic updater, the issue should be resolved!

— Sebastiaan