There are quite a few locations that need to be set within a system to allow for UTF-8 support in Clearspace. Here is a comprehensive list of settings to check if you are seeing issues related to UTF-8 characters.

1) Client OS
    - If the client doesn't have the character set they will not be able to display UTF-8 characters.

2) Browser

   - We send a header and meta data for the page that should dictate the encoding but the browser can be set to override what we send.

3) Application Server

    - For example, Tomcat <connector> element in server.xml has setting for URIEnconding - http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/how-to-support-utf-8-uriencoding-with-tomcat.html

4) Clearspace itself

    - Admin console setting (System -> Management -> Locale)

5) JVM

    - The following system properties should be set for the JVM:

-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

-Dsun.jnu.encoding=UTF-8

6) JDBC

    - Connection to database needs to be configured to use UTF-8

7) Database

    - Database itself needs to be configured for UTF-8