topic Re: Issues with charset encoding in Alfresco Archive

Issues with charset encoding

qasimh — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:16:54 GMT

Hi,Using Alfresco 2.0 CE, Windows Server 2003, Tomcat, …I have added HTML content with the following encoding:<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">When browsing this content, it always seem to open with "utf-8" encoding. This causes some glitches in our page

Re: Issues with charset encoding

kevinr — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:58:09 GMT

This is currently an area that needs improving, i believe the only way to change the UTF-8 default encoding set as present is through the various APIs. I have raised an improvements for this to be added to the web-client UI:
http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/AWC-1283

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: Issues with charset encoding

kevinr — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:20:32 GMT

This has been fixed in 2.1R1. Files are now set to the correct file encoding when uploaded. It is also possible to change the encoding (to say UTF-8 or UTF-16) in the web-client if it is incorrect for an existing file.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: Issues with charset encoding

lakshya — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:51:34 GMT

Hello,
Can you please tell how can we change the charset from UTF-8 to UTF-16????

I want to know how Alfresco support multilingual..

Re: Issues with charset encoding

kevinr — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:10:59 GMT

Go into the Details page for the Document. Click the little Edit Properties icon and you can then select a different Encoding from the drop-down.

Sign up for the Alfresco manuals for more info on multi-lingual doc support.
Here's some dev info:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Multilingual_Document_Support

Kev

Re: Issues with charset encoding

lakshya — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:32:38 GMT

Thanks Kevin..
But when I am setting the Encoding : UTF-16 and Language: French
it displays some chinese charaters.

I am writing 'Hello' in the file and getting '攀氀氀漀" when i set encoding and language.
Can you put some lights on this???

Re: Issues with charset encoding

kevinr — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:39:05 GMT

What application are you using to edit the file? The Alfresco client does not support "online" file editing in anything other than UTF-8 (i.e. for text/html files edited within your browser). So you will need to open it and edit it in the appropriate application such as MS Word.

Kevin

Re: Issues with charset encoding

lakshya — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:42:10 GMT

I have followed simple steps

- create a content
- put some text in it ,say "Hello"
- set encoding : UTF-16
- set Language : French

When I create .txt file is displays "Hello" in some chinese character
When I create .doc file is displays "Hello" in English itself.

Am I missing something???