After upgrading from Gradle 8.11.1 -> 9.0.0 som...
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Harry Jackson
10/11/2025, 12:05 AMAfter upgrading from Gradle 8.11.1 -> 9.0.0 some UTF-8 characters in html are not rendering properly. The following two images is one example of what a before-and-after picture looks like.
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Chris Lee
10/11/2025, 12:53 AMsome UTF-8 characters in htmlwhat html? something built by Gradle - Javadoc? In your app at runtime?
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Harry Jackson
10/11/2025, 2:07 AMThe utf-8 character is in a Velocity template <span class="logo-emoji">☁️🔧</span>
Harry Jackson
10/11/2025, 2:09 AMIt's a Spring Boot project, and the jar is built by Gradle. I've tried 9.0.0, 9.1.0, and 9.2.0-rc-1 and they all have the same problem. If I roll back to 8.14.3, the problem goes away.
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Chris Lee
10/11/2025, 2:35 AMHave you compared the packaged template between builds to isolate specific differences?
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Harry Jackson
10/11/2025, 2:38 AMI'm in the process of getting the jars.
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Harry Jackson
10/13/2025, 6:08 PMThe only file with any differences is META-INF/build-info.properties and it's build time and version so there is something else going on. I just checked the container and all installed package versions are identical.
Harry Jackson
10/27/2025, 4:58 PMWe solved the problem, but we don't know why we need to do this. When using Gradle 9 we need to explicity set the UTF-8 encoding when bootstrapping Velocity. Don't know what changed, but this fixes the issue.
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