foreign character in broadleaf 2 M1

[DiscoDancer]

I've just started work on developing a site using broadleaf 2 M1. The site is for use in Georgia (the country) which has its own alphabet. An example of a word in Georgian is:
პროდუქტის
The whole site needs to be in Georgian, and so I've been doing some checks to see how this will work. I've modified one of the products in the demo, via the admin interface, giving it a title and description in Georgian. This appears to work fine in both the admin interface and a check in the db shows that the columns have been populated with the Georgian characters. However the main site simply shows '?' instead of Georgian characters (i.e. the Georgian word above simply appears as '?????????') - a check with wget shows that the html is actually being delivered with '?'s, so it doesn't appear to be a browser rendering issue (and the browser is able to show these characters in the admin interface and on other georgian websites). I see that these values are being inserted into the page via some blc taglibs, but I can't work out where the source for the taglibs is in order to debug further:
<blc:head pageTitle="${'Broadleaf Demo - Heat Clinic - ' + product.name}" />

Can someone either suggest how to fix the problem or at least point me to where to find the source for the taglibs?

Thanks,
Andrew.

[DiscoDancer]

The answer to my question appears to be that the character encoding is down to a combination of ThymeLeaf and Spring. By default spring is returning an 8-bit character encoding (you can see it in the http response header). To fix this you need to modify the BroadleafThymeleafViewResolver bean definition in applicationContext-servlet.xml and override the bean definition for ServletContextTemplateResolver (and place this in the same xml file). The end result looks like this for me:

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    <!-- set character coding for sending stuff back to the client -->
    <bean class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.web.BroadleafThymeleafViewResolver">
        <property name="templateEngine" ref="blWebTemplateEngine"/>
        <property name="order" value="1"/>
        <property name="cache" value="false"/>
        <property name="fullPageLayout" value="layout/fullPageLayout"/>
        <property name="iframeLayout" value="layout/iframeLayout"/>
        <property name="characterEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
        <property name="layoutMap">
            <map>
                <entry key="account/" value="layout/accountLayout"/>
                <entry key="catalog/" value="NONE"/>
                <entry key="checkout/" value="layout/checkoutLayout"/>
                <entry key="checkout/confirmation" value="layout/fullPageNoNavLayout"/>
                <entry key="layout/" value="NONE"/>
            </map>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <!-- character set affects how templates are read from disk -->
    <bean id="blWebTemplateResolver" class="org.thymeleaf.templateresolver.ServletContextTemplateResolver">
         <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/templates/" />
         <property name="suffix" value=".html" />
         <property name="templateMode" value="HTML5" />
         <property name="cacheable" value="false"/>
        <property name="characterEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
      </bean>


[aazzolini]

Great answer, thank you very much for contributing!

I will make the DemoSite utilize UTF-8 by default in future builds.