Problems using special characters (á,é,ñ...)

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igomez

Hi.

I have a Java app which create new people and communties throught Alfresco WebScripts.

But I have a problem with the encoding because when I insert some special characters (á, é, í, ñ, Ü, ö…) Alfresco get them like ������.

This is my code (add person):

      
String alfrescoUser = "usr0000000123";
String alfrescoFirstName = "José Miguel";
String alfrescoLastName = "Español";
String alfrescoEmail = "pruebas@mail_pruebas123.com";
      
JSONObject personaJSON = new JSONObject();
personaJSON.put("userName", alfrescoUser);
personaJSON.put("firstName", alfrescoFirstName);
personaJSON.put("lastName", alfrescoLastName);
personaJSON.put("email", alfrescoEmail);
      
postRequest = new HttpPost("http://'+ host + ":" + port + "/alfresco/service/api/people?alf_ticket=" + alfTicket);
 
input = new StringEntity(personaJSON.toString());
input.setContentType("application/json; charset=UTF-8");
input.setContentEncoding("UTF-8");
postRequest.setHeader("Content-Type","application/json; charset=UTF-8");
postRequest.setEntity(input);
response = httpClient.execute(postRequest);
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I tried the following solutions but none of them have worked.


1- File setenv.bat in tomcat/bin:

set JAVA_HOME=C:\Alfresco\java                
set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djava.file.encoding=UTF-8 -Duser.languaje=es -Duser.region=ES -XX:PermSize=256m
set CATALINA_OPTS=%CATALINA_OPTS% -Dfile.encoding="UTF-8"
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2- File tomcat/conf/web.xml:

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>fileEncoding</param-name>
            <param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
        </init-param>
          <init-param>
            <param-name>debug</param-name>
            <param-value>0</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>listings</param-name>
            <param-value>false</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

3- File tomcat/conf/server.xml:

    <Connector port="8080" URIEncoding="UTF-8" protocol="HTTP/1.1" 
               connectionTimeout="20000" 
               redirectPort="8443" />‍‍‍

I put some traces in my Java code and the output data are ok:

Datos de la persona : {"password":"nadadenada","userName":"usuario_pruebas04","email":"pruebas@mail_pruebas123.com","firstName":"Usuario","lastName":"Pruebás"}Codigo: 200‍

But the response is not ok (lastName is Prueb\ufffds instead of Pruebá)

Respuesta del servidor …. 

<< Response: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{
   "url": "\/alfresco\/service\/api\/person\/usuario_pruebas06",
   "userName": "usuario_pruebas06",
   "enabled": true,
   "firstName": "Usuario",
   "lastName": "Prueb\ufffds",
   "jobtitle": null,
   "organization": null,
   "location": null,
   "telephone": null,
   "mobile": null,
   "email": "pruebas@mail_pruebas123.com",
   "companyaddress1": null,
   "companyaddress2": null,
   "companyaddress3": null,
   "companypostcode": null,
   "companytelephone": null,
   "companyfax": null,
   "companyemail": null,
   "skype": null,
   "instantmsg": null,
   "userStatus": null,
   "userStatusTime": null,
   "googleusername": null,
   "quota": -1,
   "sizeCurrent": 0,
   "emailFeedDisabled": false,
   "persondescription": null
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Some ideas???

Many thanks.

mrogers

The response does not seem to match the parameters e.g. first name is Jose rather than "Usario"

Assuming that was just a posting error. 

In general JSON responses can either be in a particular character set or the characters can be encoded.   Looks like your response may be super encoded.   What is actually created on Alfresco?