Bugs item #2413800, was opened at 2008-12-10 13:13
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Category: XMLUI (Manakin)
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Christian Voelker (c_voelker)
>Assigned to: Claudia Juergen (cjuergen)
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.

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>Comment By: Claudia Juergen (cjuergen)
Date: 2009-01-21 09:41

Message:
Fixed in trunk of dspace-xmlui-lang google code.

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