Special characters, such as "À", do not render properly in Spotfire when connecting to a Teradata database using Information Links.

Product:TIBCO Spotfire Analyst
Versions:All Versions

Summary:
Special characters, such as "À", do not render properly in Spotfire when connecting to a Teradata database using Information Links.

Details:
 

Resolution:
Go to Information Designer on TIBCO Spotfire Analyst. Edit the data source for Teradata and update the connection URL string. Add charset=UTF8 and tmode=ANSI like following"

jdbc:teradata://MyDatabaseServer/database=MyDatabaseName,tmode=ANSI,charset=UTF8;