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Make sure java starts with this setting: -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 for example, in tomcat, put something like this in your startup script:
Code Block export JAVA_OPTS="-server -Xms50M -Xmx200M -XX:MaxPermSize=95M -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8"
Make sure URIEncoding is set to UTF-8 in the server.xml in tomcat in the Connector element, here is an example
Code Block <Connector port="8111" protocol="AJP/1.3" request.tomcatAuthentication="false" URIEncoding="UTF-8" />- Make sure your database tables are using UTF-8. If For Mysql you might want to use utf8mb4. If not, e.g. for MySQL, you might need to SQL dump, delete the DB, create with default UTF-8 bin collation, and import the SQL.
Make sure your connect string to the database is configured to use UTF-8 (if applicable). For MySQL, here is an example (see the stuff after the question mark). Note, in Windows MySQL this isn't necessary
Code Block hibernate.connection.url = jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/grouper_v2_2?CharSet=utf8&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8
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