topic Special Character Encoding issues i.e. ā in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/special-character-encoding-issues-i-e-%C4%81/m-p/115489#M81437 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi, </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Starting with the Latin Extended-A character set (</SPAN><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters</A><SPAN>) Activiti stores the special characters as a question mark i.e. ?.&nbsp; However, all special characters leading up to the Latin Extended-A Character character set work fine i.e. ü = \u00fc, ñ = \u00f1, á = \u00e9.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I tried the following with no luck:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>=====================</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>1.&nbsp; Created a servlet filter that would intercept all requests and responses to set the character encoding to UTF-8&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; request.setCharacterEncoding(""UTF-8"");</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>2.&nbsp; Configured Tomcat's server.xml</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;Connector URIEncoding="UTF-8" connectionTimeout="20000" port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" redirectPort="8443"/&gt;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>3.&nbsp; Creation of tables inMySQL use:&nbsp; DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Has anyone run into this issue?&nbsp; Any ideas?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank you,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>John</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:19:23 GMT jtsinonis 2012-09-14T15:19:23Z Special Character Encoding issues i.e. ā https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/special-character-encoding-issues-i-e-%C4%81/m-p/115489#M81437 Hi, Starting with the Latin Extended-A character set (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters) Activiti stores the special characters as a question mark i.e. ?.&nbsp; However, all special characters leading up to the Latin Extended-A Character character set work fine i.e. ü = \u00fc, ñ = Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:19:23 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/special-character-encoding-issues-i-e-%C4%81/m-p/115489#M81437 jtsinonis 2012-09-14T15:19:23Z Re: Special Character Encoding issues i.e. ā https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/special-character-encoding-issues-i-e-%C4%81/m-p/115490#M81438 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Are you talking about the Activiti Explorer or rather the engine on itself?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If it is the ui, then if I recall correctly, adding -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 in </SPAN><A href="http://catalina.bat/sh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">catalina.bat/sh</A><SPAN> or set URIEncoding="UTF-8" is on the HTTP-connector in ${catalina.home}/conf/server.xml (which you seem to have done already)</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:59:26 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/special-character-encoding-issues-i-e-%C4%81/m-p/115490#M81438 jbarrez 2012-09-17T14:59:26Z