topic Re: Encoding Problem in Alfresco Archive

Encoding Problem

mangar — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:40:22 GMT

I have a simple text file in Alfresco that has this content in it: “Generic Table Template”I have this code: ContentReader reader = contentService.getReader(node, ContentModel.PROP_CONTENT); if(reader != null) { System.out.println("Writing File:"+filename); System.out.

Re: Encoding Problem

mrogers — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:08:29 GMT

you don't appear to have posted any relevant code.

Re: Encoding Problem

mangar — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 01:07:02 GMT

I am confused. I posted the entire method. I get a ContentReader from the content service, and then according to the API, the line

reader.getContent(f);‍

should write the content to a file. Which it does, it just messes up the encoding somehow, even though reader.getEncoding() properly returns UTF-8

Re: Encoding Problem

mrogers — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:14:36 GMT

ops:

I suspect its a bug and its writing in O.S. default encoding not UTF-8. However I've checked the code and can't see a problem.

Re: Encoding Problem

mrogers — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:26:21 GMT

How are you "looking" at that file? With these sorts of problems I find it useful to use a "hex dump" utility so we can actually see the bytes that have been written.

Re: Encoding Problem

mangar — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:45:10 GMT

YES! Default OS file encoding is the problem. (almost) It was a JVM problem. I simply added -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 to the startup script and the code above works perfectly.

Thank you all