Project: Birt
Bug 129424 BIRT XML ODA Driver does not handle non-English strings properly
Reported: 2006-02-24 20:01:31 | Status: verified fixed

When a report is bound to an XML data source with non-English strings, those strings cannot be displayed in the report properly. Steps to reproduce the problem: . Prepare an XML file with some non-English characters in the values/attributes of its XML elements. (A sample XML file with traditional Chinese strings is attached. Those strings can also be replaced by the other non-English strings.) . Inside BIRT's Report Design Perspective, create a new report design. . Use the XML Data Source option to create a new data source with this XML file. . Create a new data set using that data source. If you use the attached XML file, specify "/library/book" for the Table Mapping, and add "/title" to the Column Mapping. Look at the Preview Results and the data in the "title" column are already scrambled. . If we keep going forward to add a single-column table and bind the title column to the table, the preview/generated results shows illegible characters. This would be a serious issue for supporting non-English languages.

Files changed in fix:
data/org.eclipse.birt.report.data.oda.xml/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/data/oda/xml/util/SaxParser.java