Unicode characters in user names ( Confluence Crowd Active Directory MySQL)

Question

Problem:

* You are using crowd for authentication and user directory is an Active Directory Server
* Confluence caches the crowd user database in its own mysql database.
* User display names contain UTF-8 characters.
* Logged in user display name is not shown correctly.

Ridvan · Accepted Answer

How to fix it:

* Find your confluence.cfg.xml ( in my case /var/atlassian/application-data/confluence/confluence.cfg.xml)
* find the property name "hibernate.connection.url"
* add &characterEncoding=utf8&useUnicode=true to the end of the value
* restart confluence