Hi Alexandru,

> It would be quite nice to get an answer about this issue from  
> someone at
> OpenLink since it seems that they do read this mailing list and this  
> is
> a known issue.
> BTW I need to correct the title of this mail. The issue is not with  
> the
> DBpedia VAD, it is with Virtuoso itself since the SPARQL endpoint
> returns the same garbled results. So at this time the Virtuoso IRI
> handling is broken at least when using SPARQL .

I have passed on your observation to the Virtuoso development team and  
i am awaiting an answer.


Patrick
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> On 10/18/2011 09:29 AM, Dimitris Kontokostas wrote:
>> Hi Alexandru,
>>
>> This is a known issue and we reported it to virtuoso ~9 months ago.
>> Unfortunatelly we use debian packages for our installation which
>> usually are a little behind from the latest releases, so we can't say
>> if it is fixed
>>
>> But, IRIs cannot be 100% serialized in RDF/XML.
>> So even if Virtuoso fixes the encoding, the rdf might still be  
>> invalid
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dimitris
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Alexandru Todor<[email protected] 
>> >  wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've recieved a mail a couple of weeks ago from some users of the  
>>> German
>>> DBpedia a few weeks ago who where reporting that they weren't  
>>> getting
>>> any results when querying the endpoint for URIs that contained  
>>> German
>>> umlauts(or any other utf8 characters). I reported the issue to the  
>>> Jena
>>> mailing list and they fixed it, but in the process we also  
>>> discovered a
>>> bug with Virtuoso.
>>>
>>> There is a problem with the IRI encoding in the DBpedia
>>> Internationalization VAD. Namely when querying the SPARQL endpoint  
>>> the
>>> encoding of the IRIs in RDF/XML is garbled. The issue can be found  
>>> in
>>> both Greek and German endpoints.
>>>
>>> For example: http://de.dbpedia.org/data/Berlin-Dahlem.rdf , in the  
>>> first
>>> XML lines yo you will notice things linke
>>> http://de.dbpedia.org/resource/Königin-Luise-Stiftung instead of
>>> http://de.dbpedia.org/resource/Königin-Luise-Stiftung or
>>> http://de.dbpedia.org/resource/Gernot_Michael_Müller instead of
>>> http://de.dbpedia.org/resource/Gernot_Michael_Müller. You will  
>>> notice
>>> simmilar issues if you look at this resource from the Greek DBpedia:
>>> http://el.dbpedia.org/data/Αλέξανδρος_ο_Μέγας.rdf .
>>>
>>> This problems is that when querying the Internationalization  
>>> Endpoints
>>> not only with Jena but with any other SPARQL client, the user is  
>>> going
>>> to getting garbled IRIs if they contain UTF8 characters.
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>> Alexandru Todor
>>>
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