Chat messages showing non-ascii characters

[ativsoftware]

Chat messages received on web sdk (1.8.6) show garbage characters if sent from Mac client (5.4.7).
Also does not display proper characters if chat sent from iOS SDK (5.4.54…)

Messages sent from web sdk show up as “[This is an encrypted message]” on iOS SDK and Mac client.

[MaxM]

Hey @ativsoftware,

Thank you for reaching out to the Zoom Developer Forum. I tried reproducing this issue on my end but didn’t see the same issue. Does this happen only during meetings or webinars or are there other settings to reproduce the issue? Are you also able to provide a meeting ID where this happened?

Thanks,
Max

[ativsoftware]

It was on a webinar: 83458851102

[MaxM]

Hey @ativsoftware,

Thank you for providing additional information. I tested this again using our Sample Angular App when in a Webinar and still wasn’t able to see the issue. I tested when sending to and from the following:

• Web SDK 1.8.6
• MacOS Client 5.4.7 and 5.4.9
• iOS Client 5.4.10
• Android Client 5.4.7

Are you seeing the same issue when using the Sample Angular app or our Sample Web App? This will help me to narrow down the cause.

Thanks,
Max

[ativsoftware]

Is there a standalone working implementation where I can just test by entering a meeting ID, key, secret, etc?

[MaxM]

Hey @ativsoftware,

That is essentially what the Sample Web App is, but it does require some configuration the first time you run it. You can change the API Key and Secret at the following lines:

zoom/sample-app-web/blob/5bdebf62bb35a495dad6e30877317964a3601f30/Local/js/index.js#L13-L19

Then you would run npm install and npm start in the terminal to get it running. From there, you can serve it locally over HTTPS using ngrok using the command ngrok http 9999. This is the process I use for testing the Web SDK. Testing with the Sample Angular App is similar but does have some differences.

I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Max

[ativsoftware]

I tried again with web sdk 1.9.0 and the latest Mac client and got the same results.

Could it matter how we set things up for the web sdk?
Here’s our code:

<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://source.zoom.us/1.9.0/css/bootstrap.css" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://source.zoom.us/1.9.0/css/react-select.css" />

<script src="https://source.zoom.us/1.9.0/lib/vendor/react.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://source.zoom.us/1.9.0/lib/vendor/react-dom.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://source.zoom.us/1.9.0/lib/vendor/redux.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://source.zoom.us/1.9.0/lib/vendor/redux-thunk.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://source.zoom.us/1.9.0/lib/vendor/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://source.zoom.us/1.9.0/lib/vendor/lodash.min.js"></script>

<!-- import ZoomMtg -->
<script src="https://source.zoom.us/zoom-meeting-1.9.0.min.js"></script>

<script>
    var initialized = false;
    $(document).ready(function(){
        if (initialized == false) {
            initialized = true;
            let curUrl = "<?php echo $this->return_url; ?>";

            ZoomMtg.setZoomJSLib('https://source.zoom.us/1.9.0/lib', '/av'); 
            ZoomMtg.preLoadWasm();
            ZoomMtg.prepareJssdk();
            console.log(JSON.stringify(ZoomMtg.getWebSDKVersion()));

            ZoomMtg.init({
                debug: false,
                leaveUrl: curUrl,
                isSupportAV: true,
                isSupportChat: true,
                disableInvite: true,
                meetingInfo: [
                  'topic',
                  'mn',
                  'participant',
                  'enctype',
                ],
                success: function() {
                    ZoomMtg.join({
                        signature: "<?php echo $signature; ?>",
                        apiKey: "<?php echo $this->api_key; ?>",
                        meetingNumber: <?php echo $this->meetingid; ?>,
                        userName: "<?php echo $userName; ?>",
                        passWord: "<?php echo $this->password; ?>",
                        userEmail: "<?php echo $this->email; ?>", 
                        success(res) {
                        },
                        error(res) { 
                            console.log(res);
                        }
                    })
                },
                error: function() {
                    console.log("init failed");
                }
            });
        }
    });
</script>

[MaxM]

Hey @ativsoftware,

Thank you for the update. This could be related to the browser that you’re using to run the Web SDK. Have you tried using a different browser, updating your existing browser or clearing your cache?

If that doesn’t help, please send an email to developersupport@zoom.us with a link to this thread. We can set up a meeting from there and troubleshoot the issue live to make sure that I’m not missing any steps to reproduce the issue.

Thanks,
Max