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  1. Confluence Data Center
  2. CONFSERVER-35907

Setting Confluence to use UTF-16 encoding causes problems

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      NOTE: This bug report is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding bug report.

      Setting Confluence default encoding to UTF-16 renders 'chinese' characters for spaces and even the login screen.

      It is also impossible to set it back to UTF-8, since the UI is not rendered:

      To verify this is the problem run in the database:

      SELECT BANDANAVALUE FROM BANDANA where BANDANAKEY = 'atlassian.confluence.settings';

      if it returns a different value of UTF-8 in the result, then it is affected.

      Steps to reproduce:

      1. Set up a new Confluence
      2. Go under the Administrator Panel > General Configuration > Formatting and International Settings and change Encoding field from UTF-8 to UTF-16.

      Expected Result:
      Confluence doesn't allow the change
      Actual Result:
      Confluence becomes unusable, styles are broken and administration sections are locked.
      Can't be reverted back unless a DB change is done.

      Workaround

      1. Shut down Confluence and perform a database backup
      2. Run: 
        UPDATE  BANDANA set BANDANAVALUE = REPLACE(BANDANAVALUE, 'UTF-16', 'UTF-8') where BANDANAKEY = 'atlassian.confluence.settings';
      3. Start Confluence

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            [CONFSERVER-35907] Setting Confluence to use UTF-16 encoding causes problems

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              emallmann Eduardo Mallmann (Inactive)
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