[JIRA] Created: (IDP-171) IdP-Metadata containing german umlauts shows encoding-problems on Microsoft Windows (Error in ResourceBackedMetadataProvider?)

[Nikolaus Ortner (JIRA)]

IdP-Metadata containing german umlauts shows encoding-problems on Microsoft Windows (Error in ResourceBackedMetadataProvider?)
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                 Key: IDP-171
                 URL: https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/IDP-171
             Project: Identity Provider
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Metadata
         Environment: IdP 2.3.6 (MSI-Install) on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (x86 SP 2 and 64 Bit R2 SP1, Sun/Oracle JRE 1.6.0_31-b05 / 1.6.0_29-b11). IdP runs standalone with the included Tomcat 6.
            Reporter: Nikolaus Ortner
            Assignee: Chad La Joie
            Priority: Minor


Had some trouble with german umlauts in our IdP-Metadata (OrganizationName, OrganizationDisplayName and UIInfo/DisplayName). I tried various encodings in the XML declaration besides <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> and saving the file in different encodings (UTF-8/ANSI/..) - but no combination did work. MetadataProvider [id="IdPMD"] is of type "ResourceBackedMetadataProvider".

The workaround was to start tomcat's Java with Option "-Dfile.encoding=UTF8" [side-effects on other applications may occur then?] and the specified encoding is then taken into account. It works fine with ISO-8859-1 encoded metadata now.

Since other configuration files are always read correct according to their specified encoding (eg. conf/attribute-resolver.xml where I have some static attributes containing umlauts in their values), it seems like the ResourceBackedMetadataProvider has a problem.

-Niko

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