Unity Arabic Text From JSON File

Question

My problem is that when I get -for example- the word "سلام" from a JSON file, the output will be "????", but if I get -for example- "Peace" from the same JSON file, the output will be "Peace".

This the game that I am using (I get it from this Unity tutorial):

private void LoadGameData()
{
    // Path.Combine combines strings into a file path
    // Application.StreamingAssets points to Assets/StreamingAssets in the Editor, and the StreamingAssets folder in a build
    string filePath = Path.Combine(Application.streamingAssetsPath, gameDataFileName);

    if (File.Exists(filePath))
    {
        // Read the json from the file into a string
        string dataAsJson = File.ReadAllText(filePath);
        // Pass the json to JsonUtility, and tell it to create a GameData object from it
        GameData loadedData = JsonUtility.FromJson<GameData>(dataAsJson);

        // Retrieve the allRoundData property of loadedData
        allRoundData = loadedData.al_asallRoundDataela;
    }
    else
    {
        Debug.LogError("Cannot load game data!");
    }
}

Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

This is likely due to a mismatch in the Encoding. Use the ReadAllText overload which allows you to specify the proper Encoding to use when reading the file.

The default overload will assume UTF-8 unless it can detect UTF-32. Any other encoding will come through incorrectly.

I think the right code is:

var arabic = Encoding.GetEncoding(1256);
 File.ReadAllText(filePath,arabic);