Using special characters in Velocity templates

Question

I'm trying to use em dash (—) and multiplication symbol (×) in my Velocity template. But the output gives the following.

â€” for em dash

Ã— for multiplication symbol

I have added <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> in the <head/> as well.

I tried using the following as well.

#set( $multiplySymbol = '×' )

But it gives the same output.

How to use these kind of special characters on Velocity?

Have you checked this link :https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28543015/escaping-special-characters-in-velocity-template — soorapadman, Nov 14 '19 at 07:30
See if it helps https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5151572/velocity-templates-seem-to-fail-with-utf-8 — Ori Marko, Nov 14 '19 at 07:31

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 14 '19 at 08:00

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Used the following when getting the template vm file.

Template template = Velocity.getTemplate("template.vm", "UTF-8");

Thanks @user7294900

answered Nov 14 '19 at 08:00

Nimila Hiranya

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