Is there is a way to make the "♥" character being recognized in a .lua file?

Hello! It's me again, the guy who made the Stepmania 5 theme about some random J-pop girls groups and I'm having a very small issue, well I have a song with the "♥" char as the first letter on the title, and the game recognizes normally but when it sorted by title puts the song on a separate category using the default banner, and it looks out of place, so I made a graphic for the "♥" category, but my problem is that I define the .png file on the lua for that category(the one on the DDR2014 theme), just like this:

elseif group=='♥' then
self:Load(THEME:GetPathG("group title","♥"));

And don't let me save the file propertly, changing the ♥ char for question marks, and if try to save the file with another format the game don't recognize that file as .lua anymore, so I don't know if there's a way to edit that lua propertly, I'm using notepad and wordpad. Sorry I still a noob on this

If you're using Notepad try changing the character encoding of the document to UTF-8. Notepad might also be saving it correctly but it isn't displaying the heart character. If that doesn't work, you should be able to use a standard code editor like Notepad++ to edit it with less problems.

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As King_Mew have said, you need to change the encoding of the file to UTF-8, the heart character is unicode and is not included in the ANSI set. That's the reason that is replaced by another character.

Many thans for your help, Notepad++ is a very helpful tool and it saves the heart character correctly but the game keeps ignoring the file for the category and put the default banner instead :/

Is your Lua producing any errors?

You can turn on ShowThemeErrors by holding F3 and pressing F6, then holding F3 and pressing 8.

If you have ShowThemeErrors turned on and your theme has Lua errors, StepMania will display the error at the top of screen when the error occurs. This may help you solve the problem with your banner, and even if not, will help you become a better themer.

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Thanks for the tips I've tried to encode the file in UTF-8 but the game don't recognize the .lua file if I do that, one thing I noted is that every song with a symbol as the first letter is getting in the "other" category, so now I just need to make the game recognizes the graphic for that category, but I can't simply just name it "other" because there's a png file for every letter and the game tells me there's duplicated elements

Yes, I've forgot that it also happens with the Preferred Songs file, you could replace the heart character with another one? Like asterisk or one unused letter if is for your fullgame.

But I need to change the name of the song in order to make it work, I've tried with other song with the Ç character and it's the same, I guess I'l have to remove the symbols from the title of the songs, it won't be accurate with the jackets but it's still a minor thing.