When running a WebFacing Portlet project on a DBCS system, you may run into a problem where the first screen appears correctly but the next screen displays a UTF-8 encoding error.
Japanese ja = Shift_JIS Simplified Chinese zh = GBK Traditional Chinese zh_TW, HTML = Big5 Traditional Chinese zh_TW, WML = UTF-8 Korean ko = KSC5601 All others = UTF-8
A circumvention to this problem is to change these defaults using the portal administration.
To do this, select Administration, Portal settings, Supported markups. Select the markup for which you want to change the character set, select Edit selected markup, then Set locale-specific settings. Select the language for which you want to make the change, and Edit setting for selected language. Now you can change the character set for the selected language in the selected markup.
For example, change the setting from:
Japanese (ja) HTML Shift_JIS
to:
Japanese (ja) HTML UTF-8