Summary

Some multi-byte characters on the dashboard (and login page) are garbled in case that user/system language is set to Japanese/Korean/Chinese.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install a vanilla JIRA 7.2.2
2. Set the default language to Japanese

Expected Results

The characters should be shown correctly as follows.

Actual Results

Some characters are garbled as follows.

Note

This problem didn't occurred on JIRA 7.1.x.

Workaround

• Add -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 to JVM startup option with following the way introduced in Setting properties and options on startup
• Set LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 to the environment variables