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Ensuring Correct Filenames for International Characters in Email

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Our report names contain multibyte characters, and when emailed, the attachment filenames often appear corrupted. How can I ensure proper delivery of filenames with international characters?

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  • Support Enginatics

    You need to set the profile option ‘Blitz Report Email Attachment Multibyte Filenames’ to ‘Yes’. This ensures email attachment filenames are sent including UTF-8 multibyte characters from the Blitz Report name.

  • Does this setting work universally across all application server operating systems?

  • Support Enginatics

    No, the applications operating system must also support multibyte filenames. The default setting is ‘Yes for Linux, No for other OSs e.g. Solaris, AIX’.

  • If I am experiencing corruption related to multibyte characters, is there an Oracle patch related to this problem?

  • Support Enginatics

    Yes, reports with special multibyte characters in their name may show an incorrect attachment filename, which is often an Oracle bug related to JavaMail using standard RFC 2231.

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