topic Re: A fix for Alfresco/MySQL unicode encoding in Alfresco Archive

A fix for Alfresco/MySQL unicode encoding

ismail_sidiya — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:35:58 GMT

Hi allI have been experiencing the character encoding issue when working with multilingual content. I was able to fix it by editing the jdbc url and adding in relevant connection properties like this :db.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/alfresco?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf-8‍I've tested it w

Re: A fix for Alfresco/MySQL unicode encoding

sacco — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:28:04 GMT

Thanks, that looks useful.

Re: A fix for Alfresco/MySQL unicode encoding

musper — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:31:44 GMT

Once again thanks for this tip…
Oh…for other fresh users out there, the file where you have to change this line is located on windows systems under X:\alfresco\tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\extension\custom-repository.properties