Display Special characters In Description

Issue

I want to display Japanese Characters in the description of a Job

Environment

CloudBees CI (CloudBees Core) on modern cloud platforms - Managed controller
CloudBees CI (CloudBees Core) on traditional platforms - Client controller
CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise - Managed controller
Jenkins LTS

Resolution

It is possible to display Japanese characters in the description. However there is a problem during Form Submission and you cannot use the UI. To update the job description, you need to use the CLI/REST API to update the job.

Example using the Jenkins CLI:

 java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s https://localhost:8080/ update-job my-job < my-config.xml

Example using the REST API:

 curl -v -X POST \
     --data-binary @my-config.xml \
     -u "user:$token" \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/xml' \
     "https://jenkins:port/job/my-job/config.xml"

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