character problem in webpart title after exporting a site

Question

After i have creat a site collection (in french), i save it as a model, open it in Visual studio, change the scope of a feature, package it and deploy it on the farm and create a new site collection from the new model, all the webpart titles seem to have a character problem.

For instance the modified by, modifié par in french is:

Modifié par

here are the steps

1. Create a Team site (in french)
2. save as a model(http://sitecollection/_layouts/savetmpl.aspx)
3. open the wsp in Visual Studio 2010
4. Change scope of the feature 3 from Site to Farm
5. Regenerate
6. Package
7. Deploy the newly created wsp to the farm
8. create a new site collection from this model
9. observe that the characters of the webpart titles have a problem.

note: my OS, SharePoint and visual studio are in French.

Answer 1

Yep this isnt good. The problem is somewhere in the way SharePoint parses the XML the non 1033 (US) encoded text gets messed up.

The problem here is that the export tool inserts the translated text into DisplayName etc for your content types instead of the resource file link.

Eg.

<Field DisplayName="$Resources:Modified_By;" Name="Modified_x0020_By" ... />

vs

<Field DisplayName="Dokument ændret af" Name="Modified_x0020_By" ... />

The solution is to copy the resource links into your schema from other working schemas (you can either create list instances or similar in Visual Studio or copy paste from existing features in SharePoint root.