How to set encoding for exports to resolve odd and incorrect characters in output

Issue Description

Certain characters only render correctly via a particular encoding. For example source data might contains special characters, like foreign-languate accents and inverted question marks for example. When exported to CSV, the characters might be look incorrectly since the JR default encoding is UTF-8

Resolution

A property exists that lets you specify the character encoding for export:

http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/config.reference.html#net.sf.jasperreports.export.character.encoding

It can be set in config file or within the JRXML individually.

Example jrxml tags are:

<property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.character.encoding" value="Cp1252"/>

UTF-8 is default, but you could do others, like these jasperreports.properties examples:

net.sf.jasperreports.export.character.encoding=ISO-8859-1

OR net.sf.jasperreports.export.character.encoding=ASCII

Note, a defect existed in 6.2.x in which this setting was ignored. So please upgrade if you're hitting this in 6.2.x and the original release of 6.3.0.

Ref. Case 01654457