Question

Special characters

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We're using a vcard downloader in mendix and for some reason special characters like é aren't correctly formatted. For instance, a name like Piqué is PiquÃ© in the vcard. How can I manipulate the encoding. The vcard is created by a java action

asked 2010-06-30

Samet Kaya

4 answers

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Try to change the name like: name = new name ("Piqu\u00e9");

With some "if then else" clauses and preformated strings with the special characters you can make this dynamic.

answered 2010-06-30

Jacco Feenstra

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Oke, but is there no way to set the encoding in java. Like in XML:

Otherwise we have to create a different exceptions for all the special characters we're using.

answered 2010-06-30

Samet Kaya

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Are you starting the runtime with a java flag, see this question for details.

answered 2010-06-30

Achiel

Alexander Willemsen · Accepted Answer · 2010-06-30

Mendix uses UTF-8 for string values, but by default Outlook doesn't use this character set when reading vCards. To change this behaviour, explicitly declare the character set of all vCard fields containing UTF-8 characters by adding "CHARSET=utf-8" to your exported vCard files.

The other option is not exporting the vCard using UTF-8, but this will most likely cause some of the special characters to be "lost" in the conversion.