# Serious issue with TextEditor: TextEditor and non-roman characters **URL:** \ **Category:** General JUCE discussion\ **Created:** [August 27, 2020, 12:52pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/serious-issue-with-texteditor-texteditor-and-non-roman-characters/41445 "2020-08-27T12:52:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![jimc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/jimc/32/16067_2.png) [@jimc](https://forum.juce.com/u/jimc)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/serious-issue-with-texteditor-texteditor-and-non-roman-characters/41445/6 "2020-09-02T13:07:46Z")
@ed95 Can we get some feedback from team JUCE on this? It’s been an issue since 2008 … maybe? > [@About drawText, TextLayout and japanese text display](https://forum.juce.com/t/about-drawtext-textlayout-and-japanese-text-display/13624/2): > > Bumping! Any best practices or more experience here? Clearly Jules has thought about this but I'm having trouble finding The JUCE Way to do it.  If I make a file named 中岡 将二郎, it shows up with the wrong characters in the Juce Demo file browser dialog. However, I can cut and paste these wrong characters from the Juce dialog into another Mac app such as TextEdit, and there they display correctly.  In general, Mac OS apps such as TextEdit, the Finder, and XCode can correctly display a UTF-8 encod… > [@Japanese input](https://forum.juce.com/t/japanese-input/2569): > > Hi Jules, I’m trying to input Japanese character using TextEditor/Label components on Mac, but I can input only first one letter. As for Japanese, two characters or more might be input. Probably, Korean and Chinese also have the same situation. Therefore I added the following changes. juce\_mac\_Windowing.cpp OSStatus handleTextInputEvent (EventRef theEvent) { #if 0 // Original code UniChar uc; GetEventParameter (theEvent, kEventParamTextInputSendText, typeUnicodeText, 0, sizeof (uc), 0, &uc… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.juce.com/t/serious-issue-with-texteditor-texteditor-and-non-roman-characters/41445)._