UTF8 works fine. if you use the datafile importing to make your XML files, this should all be taken care of for you. http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBENDUSER/OFBiz%27s+Data+File+Tools
Also there are some incomplete notes how how to transfer from one DB to ofbiz http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Handling+of+External+data see #4 John Hays sent the following on 5/12/2009 1:59 PM: > I am looking at importing thousands of records from an existing system > into OFBIZ. Our traditional storage charset is UTF8. > > I note that OFBIZ seems to like to use Latin1 as its encoding charset. > > When I load a generated XML file (created using webtools against a tab > delimited file), from the command line, it chokes on any accented > characters in names, etc. (Seems to work better through the form interface) > > If I move the tables to UTF8, do I break OFBIZ? > > > John D. Hays > Director of Information Technology > > > > www.mavericklabel.com > 120 West Dayton Street > Edmonds, WA 98020-4180 > > -- BJ Freeman http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation http://bjfreeman.elance.com http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro Systems Integrator.
