Reading chinese chars using valumap prop.get adding ?????

[Aruna_surukunta_]

Hi Everyone,

Need help in reading some specific chinese chars from JCR repo.

I have one dialog where author enters content and save the page. Author created page for China and entered some content specific to China in the dialog and saved it. 

When I try to read the below content from JCR it is adding ???? . I have tried adding utf-8 still not able to get the specific content.

String mDesc = properties.get("messageDescription", String.class);

result :<p>?????</p>

[Singaiah_Chintalapudi]

If you're on latest version on AEM, you should not see this issue.

Try below approaches:

1. Make sure Default encoding is set to: utf-8 on Apache Sling Request Parameter Handling config. 

2. Try below and see if it works:

     String paramValue = "yourString";

     byte[] bytes = paramValue.getBytes(StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1);

     paramValue = new String(bytes, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

Let me know if it works or not.

Thanks,

Singaiah

[Aruna_surukunta_]

Thnak you Singaiah. Still it did not work

[Vijayalakshmi_S · Accepted solution]

Hi @Aruna_surukunta_,

If you are using Coral UI 3 textfield(granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/textfield) for your messageDescription field, try the solution highlighted in below article. 

Setting utf-8 in hidden resource (Solution A) - https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/kb/utf-characters-not-stored-or-displayed-properly-after-...

Also, check if UTF-8 is set at page component level (via meta tag in head section of a page)

[Aruna_surukunta_]

Thank you @ Vijayalakshmi_S.

Actually When I save the dialog data saving correctly as shown in below. I need to read the data from publish instance and send it to some third party application. I have implemented listener to get the latest activated page content and reading data from the valueMap.

when I use  String mDesc = properties.get("messageDescription", String.class);  content converting to ?????.

Is there any other way to read this content? 

I Also went through the article and followed same steps no luck

[Vijayalakshmi_S]

Can you share your snippet of where exactly you are retrieving the value map object and hence messageDescription field and where you are seeing "???" characters?

I tried using chinese characters in textfield of my component dialog -> backed by Sling model (@ValueMapValue with getter for the same) -> Printing the value in HTL from the model using the same getter -> It displays fine on the page.