topic Problems using special characters (á,é,ñ...) in Alfresco Archive

Problems using special characters (á,é,ñ...)

igomez — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:43:56 GMT

Hi.I have a Java app which create new people and communties throught Alfresco WebScripts.But I have a problem with the encoding because when I insert some special characters (á, é, í, ñ, Ü, ö…) Alfresco get them like ��.This is my code (add person): String alfrescoUser = "usr0000000123";Str

Re: Problems using special characters (á,é,ñ...)

mrogers — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:19:06 GMT

The response does not seem to match the parameters e.g. first name is Jose rather than "Usario"

Assuming that was just a posting error.

In general JSON responses can either be in a particular character set or the characters can be encoded. Looks like your response may be super encoded. What is actually created on Alfresco?

Re: Problems using special characters (á,é,ñ...)

igomez — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:56:51 GMT

Yes, sorry, just a post error

I tried again with this data:

      
String alfrescoUser = "usr_001";
String alfrescoFirstName = "María";
String alfrescoLastName = "López";
String alfrescoEmail = "pruebas@mail_pruebas123.com";
String alfrescoPassword = "———";
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JSON:

 {"password":"———","userName":"usr_001","email":"pruebas@mail_pruebas123.com","firstName":"María","lastName":"López"}‍

Response:

{
   "url": "\/alfresco\/service\/api\/person\/usr_001",
   "userName": "usr_001",
   "enabled": true,
   "firstName": "Mar\ufffda",
   "lastName": "L\ufffdpez",
   "jobtitle": null,
   "organization": null,
   "location": null,
   "telephone": null,
   "mobile": null,
   "email": "pruebas@mail_pruebas123.com",
   "companyaddress1": null,
   "companyaddress2": null,
   "companyaddress3": null,
   "companypostcode": null,
   "companytelephone": null,
   "companyfax": null,
   "companyemail": null,
   "skype": null,
   "instantmsg": null,
   "userStatus": null,
   "userStatusTime": null,
   "googleusername": null,
   "quota": -1,
   "sizeCurrent": 0,
   "emailFeedDisabled": false,
   "persondescription": null
}
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Into Alfresco the user continues with bad character encoding:

Activada
   
Mar�a L�pez
   
usr_001
   
   
pruebas@mail_pruebas123.com‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Re: Problems using special characters (á,é,ñ...)

igomez — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:24:40 GMT

I'm trying to load users with a Firefox Extension called "Poster" that make POST, GET, PUT petitions with your desired data.

I put the same data that I put in mi Java code ({"password":"welcome","userName":"usuario_pruebas06","email":"pruebas@mail_pruebas123.com","firstName":"Usuario","lastName":"Pruebás"}) and, in this case, the data are ok.

So I think that my problem is in my Java code or something, but I don't know where because I put UTF-8 in every headers…

Many thanks for your time.

Re: Problems using special characters (á,é,ñ...)

mrogers — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:32:00 GMT

I suspect that personaJSON.put("userName", alfrescoUser);
has not actually written UTF-8.

Re: Problems using special characters (á,é,ñ...)

igomez — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:05:55 GMT

I'm doing some tests to detect the problem…

So in Eclipse, in "Run configurations" I put the encoding in UTF-8, in the VM Arguments I put -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 and the problem still persists.

I'm trying to covert the string persona to UTF-8 but nothing happens

      
postRequest.setHeader("Content-Type","application/json; charset=UTF-8");
postRequest = new HttpPost("http://'+ host + ":" + port + "/alfresco/service/api/people?alf_ticket=" + finder.getValue());
String persona = "{\"password\":\"welcome\",\"userName\":\"usr_0023\",\"email\":\"pruebas@mail_pruebas123.com\",\"firstName\":\"Usuário\",\"lastName\":\"Pruebás\"}";
byte[] utf81 = persona.getBytes("UTF-8");
String personaUTF = new String(utf81, "UTF8");
System.out.print("Persona UTF : " + personaUTF);

input = new StringEntity(personaUTF);      
input.setContentEncoding("UTF-8");
input.setContentType("application/json;charset=UTF-8");
postRequest.setEntity(input);

response = httpClient.execute(postRequest);
response.addHeader("Content-Type","application/json; charset=UTF-8");‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Trace:

Persona UTF : {"password":"welcome","userName":"usr_0023","email":"pruebas@mail_pruebas123.com","firstName":"Usuário","lastName":"Pruebás"}
Codigo: 200
Respuesta del servidor …. 

<< Response: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{
   "url": "\/alfresco\/service\/api\/person\/usr_0023",
   "userName": "usr_0023",
   "enabled": true,
   "firstName": "Usu\ufffdrio",
   "lastName": "Prueb\ufffds",
   "jobtitle": null,
   "organization": null,
   "location": null,
   "telephone": null,
   "mobile": null,
   "email": "pruebas@mail_pruebas123.com",
   "companyaddress1": null,
   "companyaddress2": null,
   "companyaddress3": null,
   "companypostcode": null,
   "companytelephone": null,
   "companyfax": null,
   "companyemail": null,
   "skype": null,
   "instantmsg": null,
   "userStatus": null,
   "userStatusTime": null,
   "googleusername": null,
   "quota": -1,
   "sizeCurrent": 0,
   "emailFeedDisabled": false,
   "persondescription": null
}
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This is frustrating

Re: Problems using special characters (á,é,ñ...)

dreiberg — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:47:18 GMT

Hi,

I'm facing the same issue.
I've created a java script based http get webscript and it seems when I fetch the request parameters they're broken.

So, if you found a solution in the mean time, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Re: Problems using special characters (á,é,ñ...)

mincd_evolpe — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:20:14 GMT

Try adding the Country value to the JAVA_OPTS in:
/alfresco/tomcat/scripts/ctl.sh

eg. for Polish language you can add:
-Duser.country=PL -Duser.region=PL -Duser.language=pl

hope it helps

Re: Problems using special characters (á,é,ñ...)

sharan — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 06:40:31 GMT

Hello,
on windows platform getting some special characters from server.
using war file in tomcat server

The following steps i fallowed:
1. add URIEncoding = "UTF-8" in server.xml
2. Configure Tomcat: Java set as JVM to JAVA
3. in apache tomcat add deafult char set in httpd.conf file : add line at bottom #addDefaultCharset utf8
4. inside programfile/apache software foundation/tomcat 7.0/bin : a create setenv.bat file file contains
set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Dfile.encoding=UTF8

still the problem is not resolved.

Re: Problems using special characters (á,é,ñ...)

fcorti — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 12:47:06 GMT

Hi all,

We are seeing this topic is interesting (and useful) for a lot of people but it is starting to contain many questions (and use cases) in one thread.
Please open new questions to continue the discussion on single use cases and issues.

Many thanks.