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Requirements for Using UTF-8
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Add the following lines to the MySQL configuration file"[mysqld]" and "[mysql]" sections of the MySQL configuration file, adding the sections if necessary. For Ubuntu, the file is located in /etc/mysql/my.cnf.
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[mysqld]
character-set-server=utf8
collation-server=utf8_general_ci
[mysql]
default-character-set=utf8
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For interested developers
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A workaround that *appears* to fix the issue (I haven't done serious testing) is to wrap a file input stream in an org.apache.velocity.io.UnicodeInputStream instance, which is specifically designed to be BOM-aware. (There is also a BOMInputStream in apache.commons.io, but in a later version of the jar than is included in Openmrs 1.6).