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3029990 - Special characters showing question mark in users' name - Onboarding 1.0

Symptom

Character � is showing in name of users in Onboarding and in Organization Chart.

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding

Cause

Schedule job Delta Employees Export in Provisioning is using Characters Encoding Windows/ISO instead of UTF-8.

Resolution

To solve the issue is needed to use Unicode (UTF-8) which supports the additional characters.

  1. Go to Provisioning >> Manage Scheduled Jobs
  2. Select "Delta Person Export" to Job Type
  3. Click the job to check Character Encoding
  4. If it is incorrect, cancel the job
  5. Edit the job and change Character Encoding to Unicode (UTF-8)
  6. Save the job

Keywords

Special, Character, Question mark, Name, Character Encoding, Delta User Sync, Delta Person Export, Delta Employees Export , KBA , LOD-SF-OBD-INT , Integrations with Onboarding , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding all versions