System Character Encoding

This section describes how to switch the system character encoding format on the FW.

Overview of System Character Encoding: This section describes the character encoding formats supported by the FW.

Switching the System Character Encoding Format Using the Web UI: The default system character encoding format is GBK. In this format, users can enter only Chinese and English characters in the GBK encode table when configuring parameters such as policies names and user names. The characters of other languages (such as German and French) are not supported. If a language that GBK does not support is used, switch the system character encoding format to UTF-8.

Switching the System Character Encoding Format Using the CLI: The default system character encoding format is GBK. In this format, users can enter only Chinese and English characters in the GBK encode table when configuring parameters such as policies names and user names. The characters of other languages (such as German and French) are not supported. If a language that GBK does not support is used, switch the system character encoding format to UTF-8.