SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3793406 - Competencies are not displaying correctly in LMS

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