Rainmeter font symbol (japanese language) minor issue

[slyphnier]

hello everyone

I got this issue ever since final release 3.0
please take a look the image below


the symbol that i red-circled
in script that from Text="ﾕ" and Text="ﾗ"
complete script is this:

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[Sunrise_Symbol]
Hidden=1
Meter=STRING
X=12
Y=82
StringEffect=#effect#
StringStyle=NORMAL
StringAlign=LEFT
FontColor=#fontColor.Text#
FontSize=#FontGrafityHeight#
FontFace=#FontGrafity#
Antialias=1
Text="ﾕ"

it been working until rainmeter 3beta r2022

ever since final release and the latest 3.0.1 it no longer showing up
anyone can help how to fix this ?

thank in advance

[moshi]

try:

FontFace=Webdings
Text="Õ"

FontFace=Webdings
Text="×"

[slyphnier]

hi moshi

tried your script and sunset symbol working but sunrise still not working
instead showing sun it showing ears
here the result after i made changes to the script

[moshi]

the symbols you want to use are from the Webdings font.
the characters they represent are maybe different on a Japanese Windows.
open the Windows character map. go to the Webdings font. search your symbol. double click it. copy. paste into your skin's INI.

FontFace should be Webdings.

[slyphnier]

ah yes i got it working
the code you post earlier is right
i need to save .ini file in unicode
at first when saving by default, notepad giving notice i will lose some if i save in ansi
so i save in utf-8... but seems it messing things
resave it in unicode and fixed the symbol

thank you

[moshi]

my pleasure.

i think it is in general a good idea to work with Unicode (UTF-16 Little Endian) encoded files in Rainmeter. even such simple things as the degree sign ° get messed up if a Hungarian user wants to use an ANSI encoded skin from an English user for example.

ANSI encoded files are smaller of course. but you better ask a coder if that's really noticeable on nowadays computers or if it is about fractions of milliseconds.