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[Mirko Tasler <>]

> First of all, do you have a grouper client build after march 31st?

Tried my test case with grouperClient 1.4.2 prebuild, same result. (Do I 
need to update the WS too?)

Btw., the UI displays the umlaut correctly...
    <span class="browseStemsLocationHere">[...]umlautä</span>
...but should better escape it (in this case to umlaut&auml; or to 
umlaut&#228;).

> https://bugs.internet2.edu/jira/browse/GRP-263

Quite interesting since I had some trouble with Grouper WS, addMember 
and blanks, but the umlauts are probably not related to this (also I'm 
using gcStemSave and gcFindStems, not *Member).

> I have a sample test java program to print out an umlaut: Test.java

Try this instead (save the file as UTF-8, you may also need to use 
"javac -encoding UTF-8"):

    public class Test {
        public static void main(String[] args) {
            System.out.println((char) 228);
        }
    }

Most Linux distros out there now use UTF-8, so they should be able to 
handle that snippet correctly.  For me, the setting is (using Fedora 11, 
btw.):
    
[tasler@pc~]$
 env | grep LANG
    LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
    GDM_LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
But I guess you would prefer:
    LANG=en_US.UTF-8

[...]

> # this should probably be changed to UTF-8 for international
> charsets... for US it can be: ISO-8859-1
> grouperClient.default.fileEncoding = UTF-8

While ISO-8859-1 contains the ä, I still tried UTF-8, no luck :(
(Shouldn't this default to UTF-8?)

Thanks,

Mirko


> > -----Original Message----- From: Mirko Tasler
> > [mailto:]
> >  Sent: Wednesday, September 02,
> > 2009 4:29 AM To: 
> >
> >  Subject:
> > [grouper-users] Fetching Stems with Umlauts
> >
> > Dear Grouper-Users,
> >
> > here at Freie Universität Berlin, we are creating Stems with
> > umlauts using GrouperClient like in *1 with "test:umlautä". This
> > works fine, and a quick "SELECT display_name FROM grouper_stems
> > WHERE display_name LIKE 'test:%umlau%'" also equals to the
> > originating stemName. However, when I try to look up this Stem with
> > GrouperClient with *2, the found Stem name in the WsStem[] Array
> > (fetched with found[0].getName()) has no umlauts but instead a char
> > with the value "0xefbfbd"/65533 (i.e., invalid Unicode). The
> > response from the Web Service at *3 seems correct. How do I fetch
> > the correct name? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mirko Tasler
> >
> >
> > *1 Code snippet saving Stem String stemName="test:umlautä"; WsStem
> > wsStem = new WsStem(); wsStem.setName(stemName); WsStemToSave
> > wsStemToSave = new WsStemToSave(); wsStemToSave.setWsStemLookup(new
> > WsStemLookup(stemName, null)); wsStemToSave.setWsStem(wsStem);
> > gcStemSave.addStemToSave(wsStemToSave);
> > gcStemSave.assignTxType(GcTransactionType.NONE).execute();
> >
> > *2 Code snippet looking up Stem String parentName="test";
> > WsStemQueryFilter wsStemQueryFilter = new WsStemQueryFilter();
> > wsStemQueryFilter.setParentStemName(parentName);
> >
> > wsStemQueryFilter.setStemQueryFilterType("FIND_BY_PARENT_STEM_NAME");
wsStemQueryFilter.setParentStemNameScope("ALL_IN_SUBTREE");
> > GcFindStems gcFindStems = new GcFindStems(); WsFindStemsResults
> > result =
> > gcFindStems.assignStemQueryFilter(wsStemQueryFilter).execute();
> > WsStem[] found=result.getStemResults(); int
> > c=found[0].getName().charAt(found[0].getName().size()-1); (leads to
> > c==65533, should be 228)
> >
> > *3 Response snippet from the WS <stemResults> <WsStem>
> > <extension>umlaut[0xe4]</extension>
> > <displayExtension>umlaut[0xe4]</displayExtension>
> > <description>test:umlaut[0xe4]</description>
> > <displayName>test:umlaut[0xe4]</displayName>
> > <name>test:umlaut[0xe4]</name>
> > <uuid>2ad6c0e2-8f0b-4cdc-acb7-04e142e2588e</uuid> </WsStem>
> > </stemResults>

--
Mirko Tasler
ZE für Datenverarbeitung, Compute- & Medien Service
Freie Universität Berlin