Symptom
- When searching for competencies under Menu > Learning Activities > Competencies, the Japanese text in the Description field of all competencies is replaced with "?" characters corresponding to the number of characters.
- When viewing the Manage Center of Capabilities, the Japanese labels are displayed correctly.
- No errors are occurring in the Competency Connector - SF.
Environment
SAP SuccessFactors Learning
Reproducing the Issue
- Navigate to Menu > Learning Activities > Competencies. - Search for competencies and open any record.
- Observe that the Japanese text in the Description field appears as a series of "?" characters.
- Open Manage Center of Capabilities and observe that Japanese labels there display correctly.
Cause
Incorrect character encoding in Competency Library Export Provisioning job set up: Western European Languages.
Resolution
To resolve the issue, update the character encoding of the Competency Library Export job to UTF-8.
Steps:
- Navigate to Provisioning → Manage Scheduled Jobs.
- Open the Competency Library Export job.
- Locate the Character Encoding setting.
- Change the encoding from Western European Languages to UTF-8.
- Save the changes.
- Run the job again and verify that the Japanese labels are displayed correctly in the Competency Connector input file.
Keywords
competency special characters,translation.locale.japanese,encoding,UTF-8,competency connector SF,LMS,learning,?,question mark,incorrect value , KBA , LOD-SF-LMS-CON , Connectors , Problem
Product
SAP SuccessFactors Learning 2605
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