How do I enable Euro and Pound signs in passwords?

Both Core Services and Manage must be updated to enable Pound (£) and Euro (€) signs in passwords.

This article explains how to enable Euro (€) and Pound (£) signs in passwords if your system's default character encoding is not UTF-8.

Changes will be required in the following areas:

• Domain: naming/ATPNAMES.LAX
• CEP: localhost/ATPNODE.LAX
• ea/mconsole: mconsole/ATPCONS.LAX
• Tomcat (see Tomcat instructions below) 

Domain, CEP, and ea/mconsole

• Domain: naming/ATPNAMES.LAX
• CEP: localhost/ATPNODE.LAX
• ea/mconsole: mconsole/ATPCONS.LAX

In each of the three files above, do the following:

1. Find the following entry: lax.nl.java.option.additional= .
2. Add the following to it:  -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
3. Restart the processes.

Tomcat instructions

Windows: manual start

In bin/catalina.bat, add 'set CATALINA_OPTS=-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8'

Windows: as a service

1. Navigate to \apache-tomcat\bin.
2. Rename tomcat9w.exe to the registered service name (M6WebServer.exe for the included default Tomcat).
   
3. Run M6WebServer.exe as an administrator:
   
4. Go to the Java tab.
5. Add the following in a new line under Java Options: -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
   

Make sure that the correct virtual machine is set under Java Virtual Machine, if you are not using the default. 

6. Save changes and restart the service.

Linux

In bin/catalina.sh, add the following near the top of the file:

export CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8"