Article - CS224103

How to display non-English characters in ThingWorx

Modified: 18-Dec-2019   


Applies To

  • ThingWorx Platform 6.0 to 8.3

Description

  • How to avoid garbage characters for Non-English or accented characters in ThingWorx
  • How to display Non-English characters properly in ThingWorx
  • Unable to import entities/data that was exported from another server.
  • Question marks (?) appearing in place of some characters in XML exports
  • Unable to export text containing non-latin characters
  • How do I change the default file encoding for ThingWorx for exported files?
  • Unable to export/import default localization entity, some token values are replaced by question mark (?) symbols
  • ThingWorx ApplicationLog.log reports the following message on startup:
    • Please note.  Default character is set to ANSI_X3.4-1968.  It should be [UTF-8]. Please use the VM argument [-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8] in your application server startup script
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