Fixes #26380 (cherry picked from commit a7430a9d060614169dd00117adc00ffab2a245a7)
@@ -1542,6 +1542,9 @@ Error VariantParser::parse_tag_assign_eof(Stream *p_stream, int &line, String &r
} else if (c != '=') {
what += String::chr(c);
} else {
+ if (p_stream->is_utf8()) {
+ what.parse_utf8(what.ascii(true).get_data());
+ }
r_assign = what;
Token token;
get_token(p_stream, token, line, r_err_str);