Import UTF8 Characters gets scrambled in Websphere and Weblogic

• Type: Regression Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Completed
• Affects Version/s: 6.0.5 GA
• Fix Version/s: --Sprint - SP, 6.1.0 CE RC1
• Component/s: Collaboration > Message Boards, Infrastructure > App Servers
• Labels: None
• Environment: Websphere 6.1 + mysql revision 67758 ; Weblogic 10.3 + mysql revision 67758
• Similar Issues: Show 4 results ; ;

  LPS-14291	Selenium: Allow Websphere and Weblogic to recognize UTF-8
  LPS-11174	WSRP does not encode UTF8 characters
  LPS-24903	Unable to edit dynamic data list options with UTF8 characters in Sybase
  LPS-12065	WSRP Translation cannot display UTF8 characters

Tested specifically in message boards portlet.

Create Category and Thread in category with title Tést Catégory. Export Lar file. I have attached the lar file i used.

Create new community and export the portlet lar into new community. Export will work but the utf8 characters will not display correctly.

[Igor Spasic]

This happens usually when default file encoding is not set, a common issue when working with app servers. Would you be so kind to try the following:

--[WebSphere]--------------------------------------------------
Navigate to:

Servers > WebSphere application servers > server1 > Configuration tab > Server Infrastructure > Java and Process Management > Process definition > Additional Properties > Java Virtual Machine > Java Virtual Machine > Generic JVM arguments

Add:
-Dfile.encoding=UTF8

to the field. Save configuration and (just to be sure restart the server.

--[WebLogic]--------------------------------------------------
I was not able to set it in administration console, but only by editing the file: domains\base_domain\bin\setDomainEnv.cmd.
Stop the server, modify the line #244 to looks like this:

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set JAVA_PROPERTIES=-Dfile.encoding=UTF8 %JAVA_PROPERTIES% %EXTRA_JAVA_PROPERTIES%
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After above setup import of utf8 chars should work.

[Lawrence Lee]

The configurations worked. Thanks Igor