[VELOCITY-975] Unicode characters cause issues

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.3
• Component/s: Engine
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Alex O'Ree
• Created: 12/Feb/24 15:31
• Updated: 16/Feb/24 12:32

Description

Ran across some cases of processing files using velocity with some unicode characters in it that caused some unexpected results. Is there anything that I can do to prevent or mitigate this short of stripping out a set of bad characters before i had the script off to velocity?
 

org.apache.velocity.exception.ParseErrorException: Lexical error,   Encountered: "\u00a0" (160), after : "" at *unset*[line 1, column 19]
        at org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.evaluate(RuntimeInstance.java:1437)
        at org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine.evaluate(VelocityEngine.java:239)