Well,

> When I file:list a folder that has files with Chinese characters, the characters get replaced by ���. 

especially this one is looking to me like you're missing a proper(ly configured) Chinese font on either host or client system – otherwise there would be garbled ASCII character sequences. – In other words, currently any Chinese glyphs have no characters for graphical representation.

Very likely Ubuntu has excellent wikis or howtos about CJK font installation. The Noto-fonts are quite popular.
I am on Arch (and have no Windows), so here's another font list:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Localization/Chinese#Fonts

If this is not sufficient, try to configure the BaseX back-end to find your font.
Or try to declare your fonts in a style sheet like so:
https://www.w3.org/Style/styling-XML.en.html


Regards

Am 02.06.22 um 11:33 schrieb France Baril:

Hi, 

Some more details:

• I'm on Ubuntu and my client is on Windows, we both get the same behavior: correct output in english, error with chinese characters.
• I assume the characters are utf-8 since my basex setup is all utf-8. I query a db for the product name and then use that to build the file name to use in the file:write.
• When I file:list a folder that has files with Chinese characters, the characters get replaced by ���.