Bug Report Strange behavior w/ Text source + special characters

[TyroneSama]

The Text source seems to have some issues regarding reading special characters from file: sometimes, in order to get them to show up, you have to toggle "read from file" on and off. Here's a video example (warning, sound).

Repro:
- create text file without special characters
- open OBS, with a Text source pointed at this file
- change the contents of the file to include special characters: for instance, http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=avWJLSiz
- OBS fails to display the characters

This is fairly trivial to work around, as shown in the video, but could probably use some attention. Log as usual

(While I was pinning this down, a friend sent along a working implementation that might be useful for reference. I have no idea what this is.)

 

[TyroneSama]

Bump? This bug presents some very particular problems with frequently-updated text, as the workaround must be re-triggered whenever the file is updated...not really sustainable in the long-term.

 

[Light And Magic]

I had this exact same issue with the Mac version of OBS, and found no workaround other than retyping my text, resaving, and have OBS reload it and hope for the best...

 

[tajobe]

There have been several fixes to text-source since the latest release.

You issue could be related to either https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio/commit/667768b96b44dd45e325a49aa9f72a0100c206c3 or https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio/commit/c4f5769df4977ce6a4c377f165d111b8cae342a1.

Both of these fixes will be available in 0.13 when it releases.