{"id":109,"date":"2013-08-04T22:30:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T21:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webis-world.de\/?p=109"},"modified":"2021-12-19T19:44:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T18:44:15","slug":"ibm-connections-mail-and-international-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webis-world.de\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"IBM Connections Mail and international characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Issue: In Connections Mail, international characters like Umlaute are either not displayed or only a square is printed instead of the character.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Solution: The underlying operating system where WebSphere Application Server is running, is not using UTF-8 for character encoding. You need to define UTF-8 as character encoding in the Java runtime environment. For Connections Mail, it is sufficient to modify the application server configuration where the Common application is running (e.g. InfraCluster_server1).<\/p>\n<ol dir=\"ltr\">\n<li>In the WebSphere Application Server Administration Console, click<b> Servers &gt; Application servers &gt; Java and Process Management &gt; Process Definition &gt; Java Virtual Machine &gt; Generic JVM Arguments<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Set the following two parameters as follows:<br \/>\n-Dclient.encoding.override=UTF-8<br \/>\n-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www-304.ibm.com\/support\/entdocview.wss?uid=swg21639274\">https:\/\/www-304.ibm.com\/support\/entdocview.wss?uid=swg21639274<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue: In Connections Mail, international characters like Umlaute are either not displayed or only a square is printed instead of the character. Solution: The underlying operating system where WebSphere Application Server is running, is not using UTF-8 for character encoding. You need to define UTF-8 as character encoding in the Java runtime environment. For Connections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,28,29],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemeines","tag-connections","tag-connections-mail","tag-umlaute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webis-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webis-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webis-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webis-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webis-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.webis-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/www.webis-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webis-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webis-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webis-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}