topic Input text problem on alfresco 1.2RC1 in Alfresco Archive

Input text problem on alfresco 1.2RC1

anurak — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:54:04 GMT

Hi,My problem is when I enter another language in text box(such as, create a new space) then it returned me an unreadable text. This problem just happened on this version(alfresco 1.2RC1).My environment are alfresco1.2RC1, tomcat5.5, windows XP, eclipse.Any suggestion,anurak

Re: Input text problem on alfresco 1.2RC1

kevinr — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:26:23 GMT

Have you created your database schema in UTF-8 format? By default most databases are ISO-8859-1 or similar single byte format. If you create your schema in UTF-8 you shouldn't have any problems. We test multiple languages including double-byte such as Chinese, Korean and Arabic with no problems.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: Input text problem on alfresco 1.2RC1

anurak — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:53:19 GMT

Hi,

Yes, I created the database with utf8 options. Like i said this problem just found on version 1.2RC1, the version before this is ok.

Thanks,
anurak

Re: Input text problem on alfresco 1.2RC1

kevinr — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:04:40 GMT

I've just tested this with RC2 and it seems fine - are you able to upgrade? All things going to plan, we will be releasing 1.2 final today…

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: Input text problem on alfresco 1.2RC1

anurak — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:33:57 GMT

I just downloaded RC2 and testing it.

Another problem is the first time that i run RC1 and also RC2, i have to change my windows's regional in part of standards and formats to English(normally i set it to Thai), if i didn't change it, alfresco will throw an exception when it try to import a content_template_examples.xml in bootstrap step. The problem its about date string in that file. I already debug this case and found that the problem came from DefaultTypeConverter.java when it try to convert that date string to Date object.
The below is part of codes from DefaultTypeConverter.java.

        INSTANCE.addConverter(String.class, Date.class, new TypeConverter.Converter<String, Date>()
        {
            public Date convert(String source)
            {
                Date date = ISO8601DateFormat.parse(source);
                if (date == null)
                {
                    throw new TypeConversionException("Failed to parse date " + source);
                }
                return date;
            }
        });

I fixed by modified parse() method of ISO8601DateFormat.java by get an instance of Calendar with US locale then it ok.

           // Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(timezone);
            Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(Locale.US);

I concern about this because the version before RC1 there is not the problem like this. What do you think, kavin?

Thanks,
anurak

Re: Input text problem on alfresco 1.2RC1

davidc — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:32:24 GMT

anurak,

Within content_template_examples.xml there are mixed locale encodings of dates - some are in UTC, some are in UTC+1. All other bootstrap .xml files contain UTC only.

So, the short-term workaround to bootstrap in another locale is to replace +1.00 with Z in content_template_examples.xml.

In the mean-time, we'll investigate why it's failing to parse both locale encodings during bootstrap.

Re: Input text problem on alfresco 1.2RC1

davidc — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:24:03 GMT

anurak,

Can you tell us the exception that was thrown?

I don't yet understand how

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(Locale.US);‍

can fix the problem?

Re: Input text problem on alfresco 1.2RC1

davidc — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:14:13 GMT

anurak,

After further investigation, it seems there's an issue handling non-Gregorian calendars. Thanks for finding the problem.

We'll fix it, but it requires a different approach to the one you've provided.

Re: Input text problem on alfresco 1.2RC1

davidc — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:27:15 GMT

ok, we have a fix now. It won't be in v1.2 final, but will be available from SVN once commited. Use http://www.alfresco.org/jira/browse/AR-453 to track when this occurs.

Re: Input text problem on alfresco 1.2RC1

anurak — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:28:13 GMT

Thanks davidc.

Re: Input text problem on alfresco 1.2RC1

davidc — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:26:49 GMT

Now commited to SVN rev 2502.