Summary

In the Artifact Download Build Task, the "greater than" symbol in the Source plan field displays incorrectly on Chrome and Firefox as ›. For example:

Project › Plan

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open Bamboo in Chrome or Firefox
2. Add or edit an Artifact Download Task in a Build Plan
3. Select a Source plan from the dropdown list
4. Check the Source plan field

Expected Results

The names are encoded correctly, and show

Project > Plan

Actual Results

The UI shows:

Project › Plan

Workaround

If you are on Windows, this character appears correctly in IE11.

Linux/Mac OS X and Windows Console

1. Stop Bamboo
2. Edit <bamboo-install>/bin/setenv.(sh|bat) to add -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dsun.jnu.encoding=UTF-8 to JVM_SUPPORT_RECOMMENDED_ARGS
   Unix example

   JVM_SUPPORT_RECOMMENDED_ARGS="-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dsun.jnu.encoding=UTF-8"
   

   Windows example

   set JVM_SUPPORT_RECOMMENDED_ARGS="-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dsun.jnu.encoding=UTF-8"
   

Windows Service

1. Stop Bamboo
2. Open the Tomcat configuration for the Bamboo Service by running the tomcat8w command on the command line (cmd.exe) – for example:

   tomcat8w //ES//Bamboo

3. Click on the Java tab to see the list of current start-up options
4. Add the following to the Java Options field:

   -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 
   -Dsun.jnu.encoding=UTF-8