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Multilingual content not rendering corretly using ftl

sefkan3 — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:29:46 GMT

We have a problem rendering Japanese content using a freemarker ftl template. All the Japanese chars come out with ? chars. We are using community edition 3.3g.We imported Japanese content into our avm store using web scripts and are able to edit it using the associated web form. When the form opens

Re: Multilingual content not rendering corretly using ftl

sefkan3 — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:33:21 GMT

Found the solution after digging around the forums:

To make this work, add the following to the java alfresco startup script in the java args :
-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

Also in the ftl file, add the following to the ftl tag
<#ftl encoding="utf-8" ns_prefixes={"D":"http://www.yourdomain.com"}>

Regards
Seth