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I want to create a report in french language. I'm using birt-runtime-3_7_2. Report headings, table headers are configured in messages.properties file. The problem is when loading the report french special characters are not shown properly.

eg. Année is shown as Année in the report

I have changed birt locale as below in the web.xml

<context-param>
    <param-name>BIRT_VIEWER_LOCALE</param-name>
    <param-value>fr_FR</param-value>
</context-param>

And also changed fontsConfig.xml as below. 

    <font-aliases>
            <mapping name="serif" font-family="Verdana" />
            <mapping name="sans-serif" font-family="Verdana" />
            <mapping name="monospace" font-family="Verdana" />
            <mapping name="cursive" font-family="Verdana" />
            <mapping name="fantasy" font-family="Verdana" />
    </font-aliases>

    <font-encodings>
            <encoding font-family="Verdana" encoding="UTF-8" />

    </font-encodings>

None of these get worked. How can we solve this problem?

user4809389
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I've just solved the same issue for Russian translation. There's no need to change the fontConfig. The idea is that your .properties file must always be in the ISO 8859-1 character encoding. Characters that cannot be directly represented in this encoding can be written using Unicode escapes there. Example:

label_1 = \u041f\u0440\u0438\u0432\u0435\u0442

You can use cervices like native2ascii to translate your text or symbols to escapes.

Igor Pigin
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