I’m trying to make a text loading in effect and it’s going well, but the emojis are loading in with a box and an X in it, then the actual emoji loads in. I’ve tried changing the emoji’s but that seemed to not change anything, is there any way I can fix this?
local text = "🔊 Turn up your sound for the best experience! 🔊"
r = 1
while true do wait()
if r == 1 then
for i = 0, # text do
script.Parent.Text = string.sub(text,1,i)
wait(.065)
end
r = 2
wait(2)
end
end
--- I know the code's not the best
To put it simply, this particular emoji is 4 characters long. So, as you load the message character by character it loads an incomplete and unrecognised character - which is unrepresentable in Roblox, hence it shows up as the square box.
As for fixing this, I’m not entirely sure - find some way of detecting an emoji of variable length and display it all toghether.
Consider using the utf8 library instead of the string library for handling Unicode characters (that includes strings with international characters or emoji), as the default string library can only handle ASCII characters natively. You can use the utf8 functions for getting the indexes you need to get the proper substrings.
Using @Elttob’s excellent suggestion of the utf8 library (which I didn’t realise existed until now!), you can achieve what you’re looking for using this:
local text = "🔊 Turn up your sound for the best experience! 🔊"
local r = 1
while true do
wait()
if r == 1 then
local displayText = ""
for position, codepoint in utf8.codes(text) do
displayText = displayText..utf8.char(codepoint)
script.Parent.Text = displayText
wait(.065)
end
r = 2
wait(2)
end
end
