Symptoms

When accessing the issue and directly accessing the comment tab, the umlaut characters will appear fine. However, navigating to Comment tab -> History tab -> Comment tab will break the umlaut character

Diagnosis

  • All configuration is using UTF-8  
  • check if third-party plugin called JIRA Field Security plugin is installed
  •  Enabling Safe Mode fix the problem

Cause

Field Security plugin caused the umlaut character to break.

Resolution

  • Disabled the JIRA Field Security plugin