Problems with Accent Characters Aspose.Words

Aspose.Words Product Family
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Hi,
I am having the same issue. What was the outcome for this please?

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@pboothappliedsystems Could you please attach your problematic input and output documents here for testing? We will check the issue and provide you more information.

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Accented Test.docx (83.5 KB)
Renewal Invitation.docx (84.9 KB)
Hi,
I have attached the input document “Renewal Invitation.docx” and output document “Accented Test.docx” as requested. I am using a JsonDataSource with ReportEngine to BuildReport. In the attached documents the <<[Policy.FirstName]>> has a value of “Pául” in the JSON datasource and the <<[Policy.LastName]>> has a value of “Tést” in the data source. As you can see from the output document both of the accented characters have rendered as “?”.
For reference, I have an Aspose Total.net license.
Thanks for your help.

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@pboothappliedsystems Could you please provide also you sample data source and specify which version of Aspose.Words you use (Java, .NET, C++ or Python)? Also, please describe your environment. We will check the scenario on our side and provide you more information.

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DataSourceSample.zip (563 Bytes)
The attached .zip has a sample datasource JSON file (I had to add it to a zip as your upload doesn’t allow .json files)
The version of Aspose.Words I am using is .net.
The environment is a Windows 2019 server. I am using Visual Studio 2022 as an IDE.
Thanks.

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@pboothappliedsystems Thank you for additional information. Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce the problem on my side using the latest 23.7 version of Aspose.Words. Here is code I have used for testing:

Document doc = new Document(@"C:\Temp\Renewal Invitation.docx");

JsonDataSource ds = new JsonDataSource(@"C:\Temp\DataSourceSample.json");
ReportingEngine engine = new ReportingEngine();
engine.BuildReport(doc, ds);

doc.Save(@"C:\Temp\out.docx");

here is the output: out.docx (73.8 KB)

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Hi,
My code is a method I call that takes in the JSON data as a string that I have received from an API. So it isn’t actually in a JSON file. I put it in a file to send to you as an example. Because I am passing the JSON as a string I am creating the JsonDataSource from a Stream as per my code below.

public static void CreateReportDocument(string templateFile, string jsonData, string outputFile)
    {
        AsposeWordsLicense.SetLicense("Aspose.Total.NET.lic");

        CultureInfo.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("en-GB", false);

        Document templateDocument = new(templateFile);

        byte[] data = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(jsonData);
        var stream = new MemoryStream(data);
        JsonDataSource dataSource = new(stream);
        ReportingEngine engine = new();
        engine.Options |= ReportBuildOptions.AllowMissingMembers;
        engine.Options |= ReportBuildOptions.InlineErrorMessages;

        engine.BuildReport(templateDocument, dataSource);

        templateDocument.Save(outputFile);
    }
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@pboothappliedsystems The problem occurs upon decoding string to byte array. Please try using UTF8 encoding:

byte[] data = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(jsonData);
var stream = new MemoryStream(data);
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Perfect. That was the issue. Really appreciate your help, especially as the actually cause was not related to Aspose.

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