Is there an official recommendation from InterSystems regarding disabling content indexing for drives hosting database files (.dat), journals, and WIJ?

I'm fairly sure that the search indexing is disabled by default on Windows Server, so there's a good chance that it's not something that comes up frequently enough to make it into documentation as an official position.

However it does make sense to disable it for specific locations such as the location of the database and journals etc if you have indexing turned on for the server as a whole.

Depending on the issue I'm seeing, I tend to rely on these two links to help pin down the issue:

• https://www.i18nqa.com/debug/utf8-debug.html
  • For example with this, I would check to see if character like "Ñ" is as expected, or if it is changing to "Ñ" 

• https://www.i18nqa.com/debug/bug-iso8859-1-vs-windows-1252.html
  • For this example, I try passing the following either from the source system into the integration engine, or from the integration engine into the target system, and then make sure it worked as expected:

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