System wide default character set

Hi,
I moved to a new company few days ago where we use Tiger workstations and servers.
I've been trying to figure a way to set UTF8 as the default character set for a whole system, not just a user preference.
I suppose there is a way to do that, but I'm afraid I won't have more time to find it.
Any help is welcome.
thx fred

I've been trying to figure a way to set UTF8 as the default character set for a whole system, not just a user preference.
If you could explain exactly why you think you need to do that, someone might be able to help.
Generally speaking Unicode UTF-8 is what OS X uses by default for a lot of things. The exception would be the file system, which uses UTF-16 NFD. There is no way to change that.

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UTF8 as system default character set

Hi,
I'm new to OSX and I moved to a new company few days ago. We work with Tiger workstations and servers, several Linux internet servers and Windows Laptops.
One of the problems I have is to find a way to set UTF8 as the default character set for the system, not just user level preferences. That would solve many of my other problems.
There is probably an easy way to do that?!!
Any tip or trick would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

One of the problems I have is to find a way to set UTF8 as the default character set for the system, not just user level preferences. That would solve many of my other problems.
What are your problems exactly? If you give some specifics, someone can probably help.
Generally speaking Unicode UTF-8 is what OS X uses by default for a lot of things. The exception would be the file system, which uses UTF-16 NFD. There is certainly no way to change that.

System wide default setting of column properties

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How could I get rid of 'system-wide default' properties which got set to the column properties? (BISE1 10.1.3.2.1 Answers....criteria)
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ASCII and thou shall be ANSI ;-)
http://siebel-essentials.blogspot.com/2008/08/remove-system-wide-default-settings-in.html
Ok, that was a lame joke , I admit.
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C.

Change default character set of JVM

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Save as system wide default

Hi,
I did some changes to some column and set as system wide default for that column in dev.
1. for example there are 20 existing reports using this column. does this format applicable to existing reports?
2. How can I migrate this system wide default change to set of column from dev to test?
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Jay.

1. Yes
2. http://gerardnico.com/wiki/dat/obiee/promotion

Unable to save column as system wide default

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I am in 11.1.1.1.6, I am trying to the save a column as system wide default in 11g but my changes are not getting saved or reflected?
This is what I did using the "weblogic" user name and password
1. Pulled a column EmpName in the criteria
2. Added an action link to that column, which points to another dashboard page Page1
3. Saved as system wide default by clicking on save as system wide default for "EmpName"
4. Restarted the presentation services.
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Thanks Deva for your reply, I don't have access to Oracle support, I'll have to go back to my client saying that this is a bug,
Can you please confirm that this bug which you mentioned is related to not being able to save the column properties as system wide default in obiee 11.1.1.1.6.0 version?
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System wide defaults !!

Hi all ,
in column Properties - column Format - save - "system wide defaults for tablename.columnName "
here what is the scope of the system ?
Is it dashboards group or perticular dashboard with its all pages/tabs or all dashboards related to subject area where same column is part of it ?
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From the documentation, page 75:
Saving Your Oracle BI Answers Column Property
Settings as the System-Wide Defaults
If your user ID has the appropriate permissions, you can save your settings in the Value Format tab,
the Column Format tab, and the Conditional Format tab of the Column Properties dialog box for use
as the system-wide defaults for this particular column, or for columns of this particular data type.
Anyone who uses this column or columns of this data type in subsequent requests will use the
settings in these tabs by default.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10415_01/doc/bi.1013/b31767.pdf

How remove saved system-wide default for a column

yesterday I saved a system-wide default for a column with a custom column heading and data format.
now, when I drag this column in a new analysis, obiee shows no column heading.
I've tried to save my custom default again or reset to column-default but with no results: the column heading is still empty.
How can I fix this problem?
thanks
Luc

Hello,
What OBI version are you using?
Enter some other custom name for the column (e.g. same as default one) and save it as system-wide. I guess, you have already tried, but...
1. Stop Presentation Services.
2. Go under web catalog in the file system and locate folder \root\system\metadata. This folder contains files storing subject area attributes, including system-wide settings. I the folder find 2 files named similar as the subject area which column you have modified (name will be in lowercase, spaces replaced with +). For example, for "SA System" subject area these files are named as "sa+system" and "sa+system.atr".
3. Backup these 2 files you have found (better whole presentation catalog).
4. Try one of the options:
Option 1: If you have another version of these files (in the backup or other environments) - try to replace them. There is a risk you will loose some other column settings (or inherit new).
Option 2: Modify the file without extension (it contains XML code inside): locate the string similar to your column name. Remove whole section ONLY for the column you have found between tags <sawsavedformat:columnSavedFormat and </sawsavedformat:columnSavedFormat>.
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</sawsavedformat:columnSavedFormats>
</sawsavedformat:metadata>
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5. Restart presentation services.
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[SOLVED] default character set in mousepad

Is there a way to set the default character set in mousepad? I want it to always save in utf-8, but it defaults to iso-8859-1.
It's a big pain when you're trying to save something that you've copied from a browser. I always have to go back and type the filename again (and change to utf-8) after getting the error message about not being able to save.
Also, is there a way to set the default locale to utf-8 instead of iso-8859?
Last edited by mrbug (2008-10-31 16:18:12)

You put me on the right track; the problem was that I left the .utf8 part out of the LC_ALL= line in /etc/profile
EDIT: Oops, accidentally put a - between utf and 8. That won't work!
Last edited by mrbug (2008-10-31 16:25:35)

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Using Catalog Manager, which object(s) do I need to copy-paste between instances in order to preserve system-wide defaults?
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-John

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