French AdminUI is showing certificate expiration date as {0} in SiteMinder

Products

• SITEMINDER

Issue/Introduction

When configuring a Federation Partnership in CA SiteMinder 12.8 SP7 or SP8 with the GUI set in French, in the Signature and Encryption section, the expiration dates are shown blank with just a {0} entry

 

If the AdminUi is changed to English, the dates are correctly shown. If the expiration date is shown in the incorrect format shown above, the Federation Partnership modification or creation cannot continue as hitting the Next button in the Flow stays in the same page and marks the missing field in red.

Environment

CA SiteMinder 12.8.7 and 12.8.8

Cause

This is due to an incorrect encoding of the "Expires on" (Date d'expiration) string in the French language messages_fr.properties file for the Adminui

Resolution

To correct this problem, go to the following directory:

<siteminder_home_folder>/adminui/standalone/deployments/iam_siteminder.ear/user_console.war/WEB-INF/classes/resources

and edit file

messages_fr.properties

In the file go to the following lines

global.cert.expireson=Date d'expiration : {0}
global.cert.expiredon=Date d'expiration : {0}

replace them by

global.cert.expireson=Date d\u02bcexpiration : {0}

global.cert.expiredon=Date d\u02bcexpiration : {0}

(Note \u02bc is the Unicode encoding for ')

And restart the Adminui. Following this change the string will be correctly displayed