[IGN-5692]Designer showing °C as °C in Perspective Label in Embedded View

Ignition
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v8.1.22

I have a "template" View I'm embedding into another View which has a Label in it that shows a temperature. Below is the label when editing the template View.
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The units show correctly. However when I embed this into another View for display, in the Designer it shows up as °C:

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In a standard browser (Chrome) it displays fine, but I'd like to know the reason it displays strangely in the Designer when embedded?

Edit: the template is in my global / parent project.

Edit 2: the binding on the temp label is this:

{
  "type": "expr",
  "config": {
    "expression": "numberFormat({this.custom.pv}, \u00270.0\u0027) + \u0027 °C\u0027"
  }
}

I've tried a simple case and I can't get it to go bad with static text in the label

Edit 3: I've successfully reproduced it by binding the template label to:

{
  "type": "expr",
  "config": {
    "expression": "\u0027°C\u0027"
  }
}

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Edit 4: This displays correctly:

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I've had this issue with other symbols:

designer:
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browser:
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8.1.21, this was also happening in (I think) 8.1.14.

edit:
copy/pasted your binding on a label, and it seems to work fine:
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it seems its really getting converted into this while in jxbrowser

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Interestingly, the two strings are different.

Expression binding:

'°C'

produces u'\n\xb0C'

but binding:

char(0186) + 'C'

produces u'\n\xbaC'

ºC °C
You can even see the difference here. The first (char(0186)) is bolder, while Alt+0186 is lighter

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"Symbol Name: Degree Sign"

"Symbol Name: Masculine Ordinal Indicator"

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Oh no! I've been using the wrong little o everywhere for the last 12 years :dizzy_face:

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But at least it's masculine.

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Haha. It still produces the same thing though with the  at the start if I just do '°C' though :frowning:

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very weird why it happens in embeded views only xd
maybe it uses a different parser? xd

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I guess for now I'll do the weird char(176) method :confused:
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much better!

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Yea I just replaced my arrows with char(9660) and char(9658) too.
Not that it changes much, as the browser rendered them properly, but...

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yeah it's a bit gross, but it's better than looking at strange characters all day and having the labels spill onto the next line because of them!

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Possibly the same root cause as this other thread:

I can see Nick is on Windows; @pascal.fragnoud, are you also on Windows?

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i got this too and im on windows

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The designer is. Not sure if relevant, but ignition is installed on debian.

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All Chinese characters from binding in embedded view are broken.

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That would be super annoying!

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If any of you can try out the workaround(s) here, that would be helpful:

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I tried both JVM Arguments and ignition.conf, they didn't work.

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A work around is to pass in the Unicode to the embedded view and then reference that in your view.

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