Non-ascii characters get ignored in Godot lable text

Question

I was working on a Hello World scene of Godot.

Instead of using "Hello World" as demonstrated in the tutorial, I tried something like "你好世界", but I found that it didn't work. Anything non-ASCII that I typed in the label text input got ignored.

How can I use non-ASCII characters in Godot labels? Or is it supported at all?

Are you sure that the selected **font** for the label supports those characters? — UNOPARATOR, Jan 05 '20 at 10:21
@satoru Please post as an answer for those of us who are also having the same issue. — kojow7, Mar 17 '20 at 04:20
@kojow7 You have to add a font that support your target language for the label. For example: https://godotengine.org/qa/46955/how-to-change-font-of-the-label — satoru, Mar 17 '20 at 10:21

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 24 '20 at 17:24

The default Label font in Godot doesn't support non-ASCII characters.

You can try to change the font in your Label node to one that supports non-ASCII symbols by picking a font from your computer, or if it doesn't exist on your device, uploading it from some site like Google Fonts.

After choosing the font for your Label node, open the Custom Fonts property in the editor of the node, and create a DynamicFont, and in Font => Font Data press Load and choose your font in the opened window in the file system (.ttf or any another font extension).

Non-ascii characters get ignored in Godot lable text

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