Issues with charset encoding

[qasimh]

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 pages.

Why is it opening with UTF-8? 
Looking at the Noderef, it appears that this is hadcoded somewhere:
"contentUrl=store://2007/5/22/8/7/613e8b3f-0865-11dc-8814-798d9ee261a8.bin|mimetype=text/html|size=5385|encoding=UTF-8|locale=en_US_"

This is an annoyance to the users who author, manage, and view these pages.

I'm not sure what I can do to resolve this.  Does anyone have some advice?

I considered saving all html files in UTF-8, but that is not easy to do with several non-technical authors who are used to creating HTML files from MS Office.

I considered modifying the browser settings, but apparently, it is behaving correctly (i.e. it consistently opens ALL html content with UTF-8 encoding).

Any suggestions?
-Q

[kevinr]

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

[kevinr]

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

[lakshya]

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..

[kevinr]

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

[lakshya]

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???

[kevinr]

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

[lakshya]

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???