We regularly load CSVs with special characters with the web interface in 
DSpace 5.8. We save the CSVs in LibreOffice with the default settings, 
UTF-8 and Unix LF line breaks. We don't add the UTF-8 code for the symbol 
explicitly. We just add the desired character to the metadata.


On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 7:38:33 AM UTC-4, Lin, Na wrote:
>
> Hello, I tried to batch import metadata in csv format from Dspace UI. The 
> original files was exported from a database in csv including special 
> characters such as copyright symbol ©. However, once I imported the file 
> in DSpace, special chars become diamonds as it cannot recognize them. Ex. I 
> tried to code  © in both utf-16  &#00A9; and uft-8 &#C2A9;  but they 
> don't work. Then I tried the codes within a Dspace record, that didnt work 
> either - the code is displayed as text.
>
>
> There was a time in Dspace v1.6 such coding would work. Now we are on v6. 
> Can anyone share their success in this regard? Thanks.
>
>
> Na Lin
>
> University of Maryland Baltimore
>
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>
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>

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