Jose, It's vaguely possible to run it using national character set columns (NCHAR, NCLOB), to allow for a different character encoding (the ncs columns could be UTF-8, whilst everything else remain Latin-1).
However, we've been down that route, and it involves some very nasty customisations to the core DSpace classes that are quite hard to maintain. We have since switched to using a UTF-8 instance, and I would strongly recommend anyone to do the same if it at all possible. I realise you (like us), may have legacy issues that prevent the use of UTF-8 for a shared database instance, but there are few reasons why you couldn't have a separate instance specifically for DSpace setup as UTF-8 on the same hardware (at no additional cost). G On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 12:12 +0200, Jose Luis Fernandez Perez wrote: > Hi all > > Im having problems trying to use DSpace with a latin1 oracle database. I > cannot use another charset due to production constrains. I know DSpace > is prepared to be used in UTF8, but... Is there a workarround to such a > case? Or, is there an easy way to intercept SQL queries and perform the > charset conversion? I hope someone could help me. > > Thanks in advance > > Jose Fernández > UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech This email has been scanned by Postini. For more information please visit http://www.postini.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
