Set up UTF-8 character encoding

About this task

Encoding must be specified for international characters to be displayed correctly on UI components. For example:

On UNIX, the UTF-8 character encoding must be specified on your UNIX application server.

To set up a UTF-8 environment:

Procedure

  1. Modify all process startup scripts (for the application server, time-triggered transactions, and so on) to include the -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 parameter for the Java™ command.
  2. Alternatively, when working on a UNIX application server, determine whether or not it has UTF-8 capability by running the following command:
       locale -a 
       
    • If the command returns any line that indicates UTF-8, proceed to Step 1.

      For example:

         POSIX
         common
         en_US.UTF-8
         C
         iso_8859_1
    • If the command does not return any lines that indicate UTF-8, proceed to Step 3.
  3. From the international language option pack appropriate to your UNIX operating system, install at least one language that has the UTF-8 character set, and then return to Step 2 to test the installation.