Unicode support

Full support of Unicode computing standard enables consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems and setting of local pages.

With the Unicode support in BigFix version 9.5, the BigFix Server can support any language. However, Unicode is not supported for Fixlets.

A warning message was added to the Manage Software Distribution Packages dashboard when multiple languages are detected. This message is shown in the following scenarios involving unsupported Unicode characters:
  • When creating, editing, or copying packages whose fields contain Unicode characters.
  • When uploading a file whose name contains a Unicode character.
  • When uploading a folder whose user supplied compressed file name contains a Unicode character.
  • When adding a file URL whose user supplied file name contains a Unicode character.
  • When creating a Fixlet in which the user manually enters action script or relevance containing Unicode characters.
  • When creating a default task from a package whose filename contains a Unicode character.
Known Bugs
  • The dashboard might flag an unsupported Unicode character as supported due to false negative evaluations. The check to search for unsupported Unicode characters is quite broad; limiting the supported characters might be restrictive to some environments.
  • Error when one of the files in a package folder contain characters that do not fall under the same language that is set in the BigFix Server. There is no way to check the folder contents of a package that might contain files with Unicode characters in their name.