Hello, Am 07.03.2008 um 16:49 schrieb LARC/J.L.Shipman/jshipman:
> We are running dspace 1.4.2, postgresql 8, solaris 10. > Is UTF8 a necessity for dspace. My understanding is > that Sun's en_US.ISO8859-1 includes most of UTF8 except > for the far east languages. Any help is appreciated. @nasa.gov: Working at an international site? I dont know whether UTF-8 is strictly required everywhere but ISO 8859-1 is not even sufficient for any european language as it is missing the Euro sign e.g. (which requires ISO 8859-15 at least). What I do know is that everything is becoming better everyday since we aim at being UTF-8 strictly and only. We have lept into live service from a test installation and had old ISO 8859 stuff in our site for over a year. When I switched to a new server in January I made sure that everything is UTF-8 from now on. I mean everything including file names on the system level. This is default in a current Debian BTW. I still have some crap inside, in the search index I found a glitch last week and in the email templates too, but everywhere where I got rid of the old stuff I am really happy about flawless functionality and display. Come on, ISO 8859 is from the last century. The time is gone. UTF-8 is the way to go, no way to argue. You are running a system made for long term preservation. Bye, Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
