Description of problem: Using UTF-8 encoding with wide characters are not interpreted correctly. How reproducible: always/deterministic Steps to Reproduce: * add folowing line to /etc/rhn/rhn.conf java.login_banner = >>>\u00e1\u00fd<<< >>>áý<<< * observe login page Actual results: * wide characters are "broken". Escaped-ones are ok, but native utf-8 characters are trash Expected results: * ">>>áý<<< >>>áý<<<" on login page Additional info: as can be seen, workaround exist, escaping can be done by `native2ascii` tool
fixed in upstream spacewalk.git c2d6a6197e77aec341cc01a7c7340fe854a8cb6b
Verified spacewalk-java-2.3.8-28.el6sat.noarch
Re-verified on Satellite-5.7.0-RHEL6-re20150105.1 (spacewalk-java-2.3.8-96.el6sat) Using steps described in comment 0.