topic Freemarker UTF encoding in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/freemarker-utf-encoding/m-p/193798#M146928 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm experiencing some problems in getting Freemarker renditions to parse web form character encodings properly. I'm generating content in a variety of languages and alphabets, and they should all be encoded as UTF-8. Unfortunately, my FTL renditions do not encode text properly (but XSL renditions work correctly).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I've written a simple test form to illustrate the problem.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My test schema is:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;xs:schema xmlns:xs="<A href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema</A>"<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; xmlns:alf="<A href="http://www.alfresco.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.alfresco.org</A>"<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; xmlns:tag="<A href="http://www.taglab.com/test" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.taglab.com/test</A>"<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; targetNamespace="<A href="http://www.taglab.com/test" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.taglab.com/test</A>"<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; elementFormDefault="qualified"&gt;<BR /><BR />&nbsp; &lt;!– Type declarations –&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;xs:complexType name="testType"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;xs:sequence&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;xs:element name="text" type="xs:string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;xs:annotation&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;xs:appinfo&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;!– WYSIWYG editor –&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;alf:appearance&gt;full&lt;/alf:appearance&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/xs:appinfo&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/xs:annotation&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/xs:element&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/xs:sequence&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;/xs:complexType&gt;<BR /><BR />&nbsp; &lt;!– Root element –&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;xs:element name="test" type="tag:testType"/&gt;<BR />&lt;/xs:schema&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>And I've written two test renditions, one in FTL and one in XSL.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>XSL rendition:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; xmlns:xhtml="<A href="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml</A>"<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; xmlns:xsl="<A href="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform</A>"<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; xmlns:tag="<A href="http://www.taglab.com/test" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.taglab.com/test</A>"<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; xmlns:fn="<A href="http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-functions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-functions</A>"<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; exclude-result-prefixes="xhtml"&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; doctype-system="<A href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd%22/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd'/</A>&gt;<BR /><BR />&nbsp; &lt;xsl:preserve-space elements="*"/&gt;<BR />&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp; &lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;html&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;head&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/head&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;body&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;!– disable-output-escaping preserves HTML tags in CDATA –&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;xsl:value-of select="/tag:test/tag:text" disable-output-escaping="yes"/&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/body&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/html&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;/xsl:template&gt;<BR />&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>FTL rendition:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;#ftl encoding="UTF-8" ns_prefixes={"D":"<A href="http://www.taglab.com/test" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.taglab.com/test</A>"}&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;html&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;head&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;/head&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;body&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ${test.text}<BR />&nbsp; &lt;/body&gt;<BR />&lt;/html&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>So, if I now enter some data into the form, for example:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>English български 简体中文 繁體中文 Česky Dansk Suomi Deutsch Ελληνικά Italiano Norsk Polski Português Русский Español Svenska Türkçe</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The generated XML is correct:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;<BR />&lt;tag:test xmlns:alf="<A href="http://www.alfresco.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.alfresco.org</A>" xmlns:chiba="<A href="http://chiba.sourceforge.net/xforms" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://chiba.sourceforge.net/xforms</A>" xmlns:ev="<A href="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events</A>" xmlns:tag="<A href="http://www.taglab.com/test" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.taglab.com/test</A>" xmlns:xf="<A href="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms</A>" xmlns:xhtml="<A href="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml</A>" xmlns:xs="<A href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema</A>" xmlns:xsi="<A href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance</A>"&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;tag:text&gt;English български 简体中文 繁體中文 Česky Dansk Suomi Deutsch Ελληνικά Italiano Norsk Polski Português Русский Español Svenska Türkçe&lt;/tag:text&gt;<BR />&lt;/tag:test&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>The XSL rendition is correct:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "<A href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd</A>"&gt;<BR />&lt;html xmlns:tag="<A href="http://www.taglab.com/test" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.taglab.com/test</A>" xmlns:fn="<A href="http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-functions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-functions</A>"&gt;<BR />&lt;head&gt;<BR />&lt;META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"&gt;<BR />&lt;/head&gt;<BR />&lt;body&gt;English български 简体中文 繁體中文 Česky Dansk Suomi Deutsch Ελληνικά Italiano Norsk Polski Português Русский Español Svenska Türkçe&lt;/body&gt;<BR />&lt;/html&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>But the FTL has failed to encode the text properly:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;html&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;head&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;/head&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;body&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; English ????????? ???? ???? ?esky Dansk Suomi Deutsch ???????? Italiano Norsk Polski Portugu?s ??????? Espa?ol Svenska T?rk?e<BR />&nbsp; &lt;/body&gt;<BR />&lt;/html&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>Any ideas why the FTL is ignoring the encoding directive? Or have I missed something? I've seen this discussed on the forums WRT to Freemarker scripts used in web scripts, but the solution didn't seem relevant to web forms.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The Alfresco server will ultimately be hosted by a third party, so I'd prefer to not modify configuration files on the server. I'm using Alfresco 2.2E.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Cheers,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Damien.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:48:01 GMT damien77 2008-10-09T10:48:01Z Freemarker UTF encoding https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/freemarker-utf-encoding/m-p/193798#M146928 Hi,I'm experiencing some problems in getting Freemarker renditions to parse web form character encodings properly. I'm generating content in a variety of languages and alphabets, and they should all be encoded as UTF-8. Unfortunately, my FTL renditions do not encode text properly (but XSL renditions Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:48:01 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/freemarker-utf-encoding/m-p/193798#M146928 damien77 2008-10-09T10:48:01Z Re: Freemarker UTF encoding https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/freemarker-utf-encoding/m-p/193799#M146929 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I've found that this problem can be fixed by overriding the file.encoding property when starting up alfresco. (But as I've already stated, this is not my ideal solution)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This solution is also mentioned in </SPAN><A href="https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/AR-1041" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/AR-1041</A><SPAN> and </SPAN><A href="http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?p=12070#12070" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?p=12070#12070</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>(Modifying the default encoding property for the freeMarkerProcessor bean does not work, at least in the case of WCM forms.)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In any event, I do not think that it is desirable to set the FTL encoding globally. Given that the XSLT and direct creation of HTML content both work 'out-of-the-box', I am inclined to think that the FTL encoding is at fault. Shouldn't the output 'inherit' the encoding specified in the FTL form?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:34:52 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/freemarker-utf-encoding/m-p/193799#M146929 damien77 2008-10-09T14:34:52Z