JMeter sample response encoding

Question

I'm having problems with JMeter's handling of unicode characters. When a sample response contains such characters, they are returned corrupted. For example, I'm using the dummy sampler with this response data:

Hauptschule Sankt Pýlten, Pottenbrunn

And JMeter returns:

Hauptschule Sankt P�lten, Pottenbrunn

I've set these properties in saveservice.properties and jmeter.properties respectively:

_file_encoding=UTF-8
sampleresult.default.encoding=UTF-8

but it makes no difference.

Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks

Answer 1

Right property to set / change in jmeter.properties is

 sampleresult.default.encoding=UTF-8

(if omitted default is ISO-8859-1)

Answer 2

Add a BSF post processing element to the sampler with the following script:

prev.setDataEncoding("UTF-8")

That's what worked for me.