Chinese Period

[jriker1]

I inquired about chinese character based files in CIFS which I didn't hear back on but finding it's a bigger issue.  If I go thru Share and upload a chinese document into Alfresco it comes back with all question marks for the document name.  The MySQL DB itself is UTF-8 so is there a big issue with Alfresco and Unicode here?  Only the latest latest HEAD version.

Thanks.

jR

[zaizi]

Are you able to share a copy of this document?

[mikeh]

It's likely a configuration issue. If you've built from HEAD, are you sure you compiled with UTF-8 on?

Also make sure you've got Tomcat configured to use UTF-8 URIs and double-check the database is actually using UTF-8. Do you still see the issue if you upload to the Explorer web client?

This is HEAD running just now with some of my test content  :wink:
[img]http://img.skitch.com/20090828-d1ns2gr2bit8t76kcammc56ndx.png[/img]

Mike

[jriker1]

Thanks for the reply.  Reconfiguring Eclipse didn't help.  Added  URIEncoding="UTF-8" to the 8080 connector but no joy there either.  DB is indeed UTF-8.  Also tried in /alfresco and it did the same thing once saved.

Thanks.

[jriker1]

The correct answer was to append to the db.url in the alfresco-global.properties file:

?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf-8