Multi-byte characters on dashboard are garbled in case language is set to Japanese, Korean or Chinese

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Problem

Some multi-byte characters on dashboard (and login page) are garbled in case that user/system language is set to Japanese/Korean/Chinese.

Diagnosis

Go to JIRA Administration > System > System info page and check if System Encoding is set to other than UTF-8.

Cause

The encoding used by JVM is other than UTF-8.

Resolution

Please add -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 JVM startup option with following the way introduced in Setting properties and options on startup.

(info) This problem is also tracked on JRA-62659 - Getting issue details... STATUS .

 

Last modified on Nov 2, 2018

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