Non-western languages in Max patches

Hi all,

One particular for the devs:

I am working in an interactive questionnaire patch and have now been asked to translate it into Arabic. Copy/paste does not completely work so I was wondering if there is any support for non-western text inside patches.

I my current setup is using [comment] for questions and [textbutton] for answers. It does work within [textbutton] but [comment] and [message] does not. I would like to know if there is any work around for this as the only solution I can think of at the moment would be to replace several (hundred)[comment] boxes into inactive [textbutton]s which would mean going one by one, and going into the inspector to change the text.

Any help will be appreciated.

best

– Miguel