Article - CS41396

Chinese characters are gibberish after loading users and groups with LoadFromFile utility in Windchill PDMLink.

Modified: 21-Dec-2020   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 10.0 to 12.0

Description

  • Chinese characters are gibberish after loading groups and users with LoadFromFile utility
  • How to load users and groups which contains multiple-bytes characters
  • How to avoid gibberish when loading XML files containing Chinese characters.
  • For example
  • The Chinese characters in CSV file are
users.csv
  • After executing windchill wt.load.util.CSV2XML -root C:\ -input users.csv, the Chinese characters in XML file are
users.xml
  • After loading the XML data by executing command windchill wt.load.LoadFromFile -d C:\users.xml -u wcadmin -p password, the user Last Name in user details page shows as gibberish
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