TextAsset.text is "" although the file does have content

Pretty much what the title says:
I have a TextAsset (*.txt) assigned in the inspector with text in it (!). The TextAsset.text shows me "", although there defenitely is text. No error is thrown. No changes have been made. It has worked already.
Tried reassigning the file, Refreshing and Reimporting, no change.
Any ideas? Thanks!

 

Thinking about it: I updated Unity....

 

Weird behaviour: The bytes of the file (TextAsset.bytes) is avaiable. So if you are having the problem, here is a workaround:

Code (CSharp):

1. string content = lang.text;
2. if(content == "")
3.         content = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetString(lang.bytes);

 

You can also try lang.ToString() to try and get the text, but the .text should also return the text.

 

Does a different text file work?

Maybe that text file has a null character in it or something.

 

It's a known bug (reported).

 

Still bugged. The workaround posted here works.

 

Got this wired issue on iPhone only. Windows editor and android build was fine. Broke my head, but find out what was a source of problem (besides updating Unity). So, encoding of my json text file was ANSI and TextAsset.text returns empty string with zero length. Setting encoding of the file to UTF-8 do the job.

 

Not sure if this is the answer you're looking for. But I found a great solution here by hi_marc_pope

https://answers.unity.com/questions/1425195/resourcesload-wont-read-text-file.html

Basically the apostrophe was the culprit.

Hope it helps others

 

This absolutely worked! Re-saved it as UTF-8 and it immediately showed up in the inspector and subsequently in the game. I have no idea how you figured this one out but I am extremely grateful that you did. What a pain! Clearly a patch needs to be instituted for this problem.