topic Showstopping problems with character encoding in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/showstopping-problems-with-character-encoding/m-p/148413#M103601 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I've installed Alfresco Community Edition to evaluate it. Everything quite works but when I input international (polish like: ąźłęźżółę etc.) characters in some fields and send the form they are stored and apear as "????" in browser.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>F.e. it happens for description of folder/space but in usernames it is OK.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I've installed Alfresco on RHEL5, Tomcat (bundled one), MySQL (UTF8 database).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I've searched everywhere but I can't find the root of problem and I've ran out of ideas. <img id="smileysad" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysad" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-sad.png" alt="Smiley Sad" title="Smiley Sad" /> Any suggestions?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:34:28 GMT kosmosik 2008-01-04T13:34:28Z Showstopping problems with character encoding https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/showstopping-problems-with-character-encoding/m-p/148413#M103601 I've installed Alfresco Community Edition to evaluate it. Everything quite works but when I input international (polish like: ąźłęźżółę etc.) characters in some fields and send the form they are stored and apear as "????" in browser.F.e. it happens for description of Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:34:28 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/showstopping-problems-with-character-encoding/m-p/148413#M103601 kosmosik 2008-01-04T13:34:28Z Re: Showstopping problems with character encoding https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/showstopping-problems-with-character-encoding/m-p/148414#M103602 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You should be seeing your entered characters being displayed, not question marks.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>This normally points to a misconfiguration somewhere - can you check that the following settings are in your 'my.cnf' config cile for MySQL:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>[mysql]</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>…</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>default-character-set=utf8</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>…</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>and</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>[mysqld]</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>…</SPAN><BR /><SPAN># The default character set that will be used when a new schema or table is</SPAN><BR /><SPAN># created and no character set is defined</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>default-character-set=utf8</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>…</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Steve</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:32:09 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/showstopping-problems-with-character-encoding/m-p/148414#M103602 steve 2008-01-07T15:32:09Z