This page last changed on Jul 28, 2008 by donna@atlassian.com.

At present, the AbstractEncodingFilter used by Crowd, JIRA and Confluence silently translates certain 'dangerous' characters. The AbstractEncodingFilter exists because Microsoft Word uses some special Unicode characters for text (e.g. curly quotes). Not all fonts on non-Windows systems contain these characters. This causes issues in JIRA and Confluence when users copy and paste text from Word into a page or issue. Users on non-Windows systems will see question marks or other odd characters if their fonts don't have these characters.

http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CORE-100

Unfortunately, these translations obviously cause problems when querying for users or groups in Crowd which contain these characters.

http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CWD-1152

Until we are able to resolve this issue, customers should be aware that user or group DN's that contain the following characters will not work in Crowd:

UTF-8

Decimal ASCII value AbstractEncodingFilter Replacement Value Description
183 "- " Middle dot, Georgian comma, Greek middle dot
8211 "-" En dash
8216 "'" Left single quotation mark
8217 "'" Right single quotation mark
8220 "\"" Left double quotation mark
8221 "\"" Right double quotation mark
8230 "..." Horizontal ellipsis, three dot leader

ISO-8859-1

Decimal ASCII value AbstractEncodingFilter Replacement Value Description
133 "..." Horizontal ellipsis, three dot leader
145 "'" Left single quotation mark
146 "'" Right single quotation mark
147 "\"" Left double quotation mark
148 "\"" Right double quotation mark
150 "-" En dash
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