Accented (international) characters in pentaho user console

The biggest disadvantage of a software made in USA is that they sometimes forget is that not everyone speaks English (and I'm the first one to admit that life would be simpler if we all did).


And most of the folks that *don't* sometimes need accented characters. And there's a few issues with PUC when trying, for instance, to create directories with accented characters (see picture)




There are 2 things you need to do to fix. The basic idea is: always work with utf-8 everywere: file encodings, database connections, browser encoding. It will save years of your life.

1. Modify your start-pentaho.bat/start-pentaho.sh to add the option -Dfile.encoding=utf-8
2. Modify webapps/pentaho/mantle/Mantle.jsp to add the following snippet:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

Restart your server. It will work.


ps1: this was a request of one of the Ctools student in Brazil. Come meet us in one of the others to get your deepest questions answered

ps2: Thanks for helping me out here, Nick B. ;)