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This document relates to Grouper and internationalization, handling non-English characters, utfUTF-8, accents, etc.
Grouper and non-English characters
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also the default for grouper.base.properties for file encoding was changed. If you dont don't need non english -English chars and you are worried about the risk of this change please change it in grouper.properties
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These settings will detect if you database and file system can handle utfUTF-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 affect start time (optionally default to true)
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Grouper and UTF-8
For Grouper to handle utfUTF-8 characters:
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 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 isnt 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 Grouper UI text (example for french):
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Change your browser to prefer french French from franceFrance, (either wait a bit or bounce app server), and hit the UI and you should see your french French text
Code changes
In the tomcat server.xml Edit the <Connectors to have uri encoding of utf8, e.g. <Connector URIEncoding="UTF-8"
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