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3412804 - Story Report displays Error due to Feedback Comment field (Ask For Feedback)

Symptom

Story Report Query Preview displays error when we add Feedback Comment Field from Ask for Feedback Table
This error displays in network logs: "SAP DBTech JDBC: [3]: fatal error: invalid CESU-8 encoding for Unicode string"

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Environment

People Analytics
Report Stories
Embedded Analytics

Reproducing the Issue

1. Create a Story report query with Performance Management domain
2. Join Ask For Feedback table and select Feedback Comment field


3. Click on Preview Query
Result You will get an error of We found an issue while processing the request. For assistance, please contact the administrator or the SAP Product Support team, if needed.
Correlation ID: xxx-xxxx-xxxx

This is the error displayed in Network Logs
"SAP DBTech JDBC: [3]: fatal error: invalid CESU-8 encoding for Unicode string"

Cause

There are emoji or invalid characters added in Feedback Comments provided by the user that makes data incompatible to CESU-8 and UTF-8.

Resolution

Ask users to avoid using emoji characters on their comment for Ask for Feedback

Keywords

Feedback Comment, Ask for Feedback, Story, People Analytics, Performance Management,  invalid CESU-8, Error , KBA , LOD-SF-ANA-SAC-FWK , Framework, Infrastructure, Network, Performance , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors HXM Core 2311