Bugs item #2413800, was opened at 2008-12-10 14:13 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=119984&aid=2413800&group_id=19984
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: XMLUI (Manakin) Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Christian Voelker (c_voelker) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Imporper display of Umlauts / Encoding of messages_de.xml Initial Comment: The file http://code.google.com/p/dspace-sandbox/source/browse/modules/dspace-xmlui-lang/trunk/src/main/webapp/i18n/messages_de.xml starts with the line: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> as opposed to all other message files starting with <?xml version="1.0"?> I have Dspace 1.4.2 with Manakin 1.1a installed as a test installation and loaded this file, knowing that it would not work flawlessly because it is meant for a newer version of Manakin. In my test instance Umlauts did not display properly. However, I found that I am not the only one with this issue and most installations of DSpace 1.5 that are already using Manakin as their interface show the very same behaviour. E.g. <http://minds.wisconsin.edu/> <http://dspace.cpm.unimib.it/xmlui/> I changed the first line to <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>, rebuilt using ant build_wars. Now, my display is fine: <http://stadtteilgeschichten.net/cvoelker_manakin/> I am confident that omitting the encoding completely would work as well, but I had not seen before that every other language file did it that way. I am willing to test it if it is worth anything to test it under Manakin 1.1a. I guess Claudia who wrote this file has a different setup for her Apache or JSP container so that the same thing works fine at her place with the encoding as set in the file. This is why I report my locale setting: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 I suggest that the first line of the messages_de.xml file in the repository should be changed to either ommit the encoding or setting it to UTF-8 so that messages get displayed properly on sites where the file is just used without people in charge being aware that their site looks weird if seen in a language which is not their mother tongue. Their could be an additional comment line giving a hint to german users on how to switch back in case their server setup requires them to do so. Bye, Christian Völker, stadtteilgeschichten.net e.V. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=119984&aid=2413800&group_id=19984 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
