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Grouper works with non-English characters, but the environment must be setup correctly for this to happen. Your database must support it, your Java settings must be set correctly, you tomcat your Tomcat settings must be set correctly. In Grouper 2.2.1 patch grouper_v2_2_1_api_patch_9 there are checks at startup. Grouper patches are listed on the Release Notes page.
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These settings will detect if you your database and file system can handle UTF-8, and if transactions, and case sensitivity are handled correctly. You can get a success message if you are debugging, but this defaults to off. These will run in another thread so they dont don't affect start time (optionally default to true)
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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 not, e.g. for mysqlMySQL, 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 mysqlMySQL, here is an example (see the stuff after the question mark). Note, in windows mysql 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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If you want to add a localization to the Grouper UI text (example for frenchFrench):
Add this to your grouper-ui.properties (index must increment from the base file:
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Insert some subjects in the DB/LDAP (if you dont don't already have some in an existing source, note, you need the default source enabled if you use this sql):
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