1 Posted by4 years ago I have just installed AE something like 3 times, but it keeps throwing me that error. Has anyone had this or does anyone know how to fix it? 1 comment 100% Upvoted level 1 · 3 yr. ago go to control panel, region, administrative, change system locale, then disable UTF-8 1 This After Effects error is one of the most annoying since it has many forms even though the cause is the same for all. The online forums and Adobe help all tell you that it is a language problem. That this is caused by faulty folder install or the file name you are trying to import, however they missed one. If your last imported files/folder gets corrupted (meaning a name with non roman characters), you will get this "After Effects Error Could not Convert Unicode Characters 23:46". This can even happen after succesfully importing the first time. I discovered the third way of getting this error when importing folders that were used on a Mac. After a succesful import in After Effects, windows somehow added a "・" (interpunct). It could be that mac had already put it there or some other chracter was there that windows could not convert however I did not notice it beeing there before. So what is the problem? The problem is always the case that AE cannot read a character that you/system is forcing it to read. I have defined three main causes and listed their solutions :
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