UTF-8 Character encoding issue

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01-03-2008 05:30 AM
I am very new to Alfresco and have some basic questions related to UTF-8 character set.
I am trying to create a folder/discussion topic using "Tamil" language. It is showing ????" marks after creation of the folder.
Following things where done by me:
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Installed community version of alfresco. Installed mysql with UTF-8 encoding.
I checked that tomcat server.xml file contains URIencoding as "UTF-8".
I created language files under: tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/messages directory specific to Tamil. I made sure that "encoding_utf8=UTF-8" is present in /webclient_ta_TA.properties.
I have a plugin which allows me to enter "Tamil" characters using firefox browser. I used that plugin to enter "Tamil" text while creating the folder and discussion topic. But after entering the text, it stores the data and display back as "????" marks.
Search functionality is working fine: If I do search, it is retrieving correctly. but it only displays "????" marks.
How can I configure Alfresco to allow for "Tamil" characters?
I appreciate any help to resolve the issue.
Thank you very much
Sriram Balasubramanian
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01-17-2008 10:45 AM
Kevin

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01-17-2008 11:21 AM
I appreciate your response

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01-17-2008 12:09 PM
Kevin

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01-22-2008 06:29 AM
Is there anything I need to do. I can try out from start, if required ( meaning setting up the database etc),
Can you please point me to any URL link (if you have) for setting up the database to handle UTF8 character set ?
You can reach me by mail at " sbalasubramanian@spikesource.com "
I took the snapshot of the table structure, but not able to attach the file
Thanks
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01-22-2008 06:53 AM
I think problem is during the data insertion.
Any help is appreciated.
thanks
sriram

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02-04-2008 06:29 AM
Thanks,
Kevin
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02-20-2008 08:58 PM
db.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/alfresco?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf-8
Hope this help
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03-02-2008 01:28 PM
You may try editing the jdbc url:Hope this helpdb.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/alfresco?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf-8
This helped me when tried to migrate from Linux/HSQLDB…I just wasn+t able to get my users and spaces names to show certain unicode characters in Croatian language.
Many thanks!

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03-13-2008 09:47 AM
I have a similar problem with Croatian characters but given solution doesn't work since I'm working on Linux server. Transition to Windows is not an option. Is there a way to correct this? To use ISO 8859-2 or cp1250?
