Can I display Chinese characters UTF-8 on BI platform login screen?

[mrwong05]

Hi,

I want to put Chinese Characters (UTF-8) on my bi launchpad (platform 4.2).

https://blogs.sap.com/?p=86371 I was following this popular blog post from 2013 for customization of BI launchpad and https://help.sap.com/http.svc/rc/businessobject_product_guides_sbo42_en_sbo42_bi_custom_en_pdf/4.2/e... this guide PAGE 72 for customizing the text.

however when i try to put UTF-8 Chinese characters, they come out garbled and non-sense by my browser, even with chinese localization.

Can the BIlaunchpad.properties file handle Chinese Characters, and how?

Thank you,

Matt

[ivanyin · Accepted solution]

Hi Mattew,

You can use the Unicode of the Chinese Characters in the BIlaunchpad.properties. For example:

app.name=\u4e2d\u6587

app.name.short=\u4e2d\u6587

app.name.greeting=\u4e2d\u6587

app.custom.product.name=\u4e2d\u6587

And it shows like below:

Regards,

Ivan

[mrwong05 · Accepted solution]

Brother, i didnt even check if this works but you are a saint.

--Matt

[mrwong05 · Accepted solution]

it worked. thanks Ivan, thread closed.

[denis_konovalov]

BI Platform is unicode compliant, so all this should be possible.

[mrwong05]

what is preventing me from adding the chinese characters to the file directly? why do i have to use unicode?

[denis_konovalov]

I have no idea why encoded characters work and strait up don't.