I wonder how to configure Quartz scheduled job threads to reflect proper encoding. Code which otherwise executes fine within Springframework injection loaded webapps (java) will get encoding issues when run in threads scheduled by quartz.

Is there anyone who can help me out? All source is compiled using maven2 with source and file encodings configured as UTF-8.

In the quartz threads any string will have encoding errors if outside ISO 8859-1 characters:

Example config

  <bean name="jobDetail" class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.JobDetailBean">
    <property name="jobClass" value="example.ExampleJob" />
  </bean>

  <bean id="jobTrigger" class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.SimpleTriggerBean">
    <property name="jobDetail" ref="jobDetail" />
    <property name="startDelay" value="1000" />
    <property name="repeatCount" value="0" />
    <property name="repeatInterval" value="1" />
  </bean>

  <bean class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.SchedulerFactoryBean">
    <property name="triggers">
      <list>
        <ref bean="jobTrigger"/>
      </list>
    </property>
  </bean>

Example implementation

public class ExampleJob extends QuartzJobBean {

    private Log log = LogFactory.getLog(ExampleJob.class);

    protected void executeInternal(JobExecutionContext ctx) throws JobExecutionException {
        log.info("ÅÄÖ");
        log.info(Charset.defaultCharset());
    }
}

Example output

2010-05-20 17:04:38,285  1342 INFO  [QuartzScheduler_Worker-9] ExampleJob - vÖvÑvñ
2010-05-20 17:04:38,286  1343 INFO  [QuartzScheduler_Worker-9] ExampleJob - UTF-8

The same lines of code executed within spring injected beans referenced by servlets in the web-container will output proper encoding.

What is it that make Quartz threads encoding dependent?