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Character encoding alfresco 2.1 Oracle

akselb — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:21:42 GMT

Im running Alfresco community 2.1 on tomcat 5.5 and Oracle 9i. I can create and import content written using norwegian characters, but for metadata i cannot use the national character set. I have checked database and driver settings, but i have found no answers to the problems. I have tested this w

Re: Character encoding alfresco 2.1 Oracle

andy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:49:59 GMT

Hi

Use UTF8.

Andy

Re: Character encoding alfresco 2.1 Oracle

akselb — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:00:25 GMT

Thanks for you reply Andy!
I have tried to use UTF-8 throughout my Alfresco installation without success for the document detail forms.
I still cannot insert the norwegian characters æ ø å

However, I have found a workaround for this problem that I want to share with you and get your comments on:
In the dialog jsp's document-details.jsp and container.jsp i have changed the settings for posting the form.
For document-details.jsp:
<h:form acceptcharset="ISO-8859-1" enctype="ISO-8859-1" id="document-details">

It seems that HTTP post is the problem, and by accepting ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8 im able to use the
norwegian characters when i post data to the database from these forms.

Aksel.