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Uwe Schindler commented on TIKA-1080:
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In any case, I don't think the TIKA server should be dependent on the default locale/charset! A server-side application like the TIKA server schould in any case parse input and send output in a well-defined charset (e.g., UTF-8). Otherwise clients of the TIKA server app need knowledge of the default encoding on the server.

I would recommend to make TIKA completely locale/charset/... independent. In Lucene we have a ANT plugin, checking the bytecode of all our classes, that they don't use any methods that depend on default charsets. Recently (this week), I forked this plugin into a separate Google Code project and it is now useable by ANT or Maven: https://code.google.com/p/forbidden-apis/ and the corresponding blog entry http://blog.thetaphi.de/2012/07/default-locales-default-charsets-and.html

I would strongly suggest to add the Maven Mojo (available via Maven central). There needs to be some update on the webpage with usage instructions, but I can provide a patch.
                
> Arabic characters under windows
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>
>                 Key: TIKA-1080
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1080
>             Project: Tika
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: parser, server
>    Affects Versions: 1.3
>         Environment: Windows 2003 or Windows 2008
>            Reporter: Alberto Ornaghi
>         Attachments: arabic.docx
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> If tika is executed under windows the text mode (--text) is failing to extract arabic chars and outputs only question marks. The same behaviour occurs if tika is executed as a server. The issue is not present in the GUI, only commandline. The issue is not present if the output is html.

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