Swedish Characters "Å Ä Ö" Are No Longer Displayed After Upgrade to 15.2 (Doc ID 2359258.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 05, 2019

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Symptoms

DESCRIPTION OF THE LOSS OF FUNCTIONALITY
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In Oracle Primavera P6 Professional, after upgrading from 8.3.x to 15.2 (or higher) layouts and filters containing Activity-Codes, Project-Codes and Resource-Codes created using Swedish characters "Å, Ä, Ö" do not display.

STEPS OR EVENTS THAT LEAD TO THE ISSUE OCCURRING
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The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:

1. Create a DB on Oracle 12c using the following parameters:

• NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET AL16UTF16
• NLS_CHARACTERSET AL32UTF8
• NLS_ISO_CURRENCY SWEDEN
• NLS_CURRENCY Kr
• NLS_TERRITORY SWEDEN
• NLS_LANGUAGE SWEDISH

2. Create an EPPM Schema 8.3
3. Add activity-Codes-Types in Swedish using characters "Å Ä Ö"
4. Add theses activity-Codes-Types, as columns, to the layout
5. Create filters using these activity-Codes-Types
6. Save the layout
7. Apply the layout and see the columns that have Swedish characters "Å Ä Ö"
8. Upgrade to 15.2 (or higher) and see that the columns are not visible anymore.

Cause

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