So I've found an issue with certain special characters in Text Areas. The extra character only seems to appear when the special character is added to the Text Area via scripting, and not when entering it with the keyboard using Alt + Numpad codes. One such character is the "±" and another I know of is "º" (minus the "" of course). The character I get is "Â". So for example, the code below activated by a button:
event.source.parent.getComponent('Text Area').text = "This has extra character: ±"
gives the result in the Text Area of:
"This has extra character: ±"
If you type this into the text area directly in the designer or at runtime using the keyboard alt-codes, the extra character doesn't appear, only when it's put in via script.
We're currently on version 7.9. Is this still present in later versions? I didn't see any topics about this in a quick search, but I would think someone has to have seen this before and I just didn't search the right keywords...
Any work-arounds? I have a lot of data to import via CSV that contains these special characters.