broken group names with non-ASCII characters

Question

We use two group names with non-ASCII characters on our Jira server.

One group for office (named: Büro), one for the CEO (named: Geschäftsführer).

These groups are defective in the GUI.

When an administrator navigates to the menu entry Users:Groups and clicks the delete or edit-link of the group named Büro,

then confirms, the following message is displayed:

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Fehler

Gruppe 'BÃ¼ro' ist keine gültige Gruppe.

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Translation:

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Error

Group 'BÃ¼ro' is an invalid group.

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This occours in the current versions of IE, Chrome and FF.

Best regards

Tobias Bräutigam

MatthewC · Answer

What's your database and what encoding is it using?

MatthewC · Answer

also, can you add non-ASCII characters elsewhere in Jira? e.g. in an issue? Where are your users & groups stored? Internal, external?