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Why do my string displays show squares when the string is coming from my PLC?

Issue:

Why do my string displays show squares when the string is coming from my PLC?

Product Line:

Vijeo Designer, HMIs

Environment:

Vijeo Designer

Resolution:

Why do my string displays show squares when the string is coming from my PLC?

squares showing

Please click into your IO Manager Driver node and check what the "String Encoding" is set as:

IO manager

The default is ASCII and it should be set to ASCII for strings

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