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German umlaut in debezium server

I am using debezium-server to stream changes from ms sql server to Azure event hubs. However German umlauts like Ü are send as ��.

I have tried to format the text columns in sql server to utf8 and latin1 but the result remains the same.

Solution

  • This is fixed by starting up the Debezium Dockerfile using:

    environment:
  JAVA_OPTS: -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

    which is effectively a java environment variable.

    Tested on Debezium 1.7.1.Final.