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IJ09145: BIRT report that has Cyrillic characters in the name or description has the characters appear as ??? when you run the report

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APAR status

  • Closed as fixed if next.

Error description

  • Problem type: Platform during Runtime “ Birt Reporting
    Found in Product Version: The problem was found in and impacts
    3.5.3.4
    Can also be reproduced in 3.6.0.0. Review release notes after
    3.6.0.0 for resolutions.
    Symptom: - Navigate MyReports-System Reports - Apply Filter
    setting Display type as  'External'
    - open any BIRT report- suffix Russian translation of test ,
    save and run report
    - suffixed Russian characters appeared as ???
    Issue is with encoding type in BIRT plugin file
    Expected fix in version: Reported in 3Q2018.
    A fix has yet to be determined and we are unable to project a
    target at this time
    Expected Fix: Convert BIRT report a™s English Character Set
    into
    Russian (Cyrillic) Character Set when Opening Generated Reports
    The Work-Arounds: None
    The Keywords:  Cyrillic,BIRT,ISO Encoding.
    

Local fix

  • n/a
    

Problem summary

  • The BIRT Report with Russian (Cyrillic) character set in the
    title will no longer display the question marks (???) when the
    report is running. This issue will be resolved in our next major
    release version, which is tentatively planned for 1H 2019.
    

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

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APAR Information

  • APAR number

    IJ09145

  • Reported component name

    TRI APP PLTFM R

  • Reported component ID

    5725F26RE

  • Reported release

    353

  • Status

    CLOSED FIN

  • PE

    NoPE

  • HIPER

    NoHIPER

  • Special Attention

    NoSpecatt / Xsystem

  • Submitted date

    2018-09-14

  • Closed date

    2018-09-28

  • Last modified date

    2025-06-10

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Fix information

Applicable component levels

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Document Information

Modified date:
10 June 2025