Hi, Unfortunately, the necessary Normalizer classes (java.text.Normalizer) only formally entered the Java platform API as part of Java 6. See:
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javase/i18n_enhance/ The unofficial, undocumented sun.text.Normalizer appears to exist in all Sun Java2 platforms (I won't predict whether it exists in non-Sun implementations), and should be usable for our purposes in at least Java 1.3. See: http://lists.limewire.org/pipermail/codepatch/2003-March/000074.html But relying on sun.text.* classes is really bad form. Despite it appearing to be a rather nominal distinction (according to the above post), it would be more reliable to depend on ICU4J until such a time that Java 6 became a requirement. I'm not sure why you've mentioned the XMLUI at this point - although it produces a visible change, all* the changes exist entirely inside the Java code, and what is written to the database browse tables. So whether you have the XMLUI or JSP, shouldn't make any difference - but if you are thinking of some other aspect that I haven't considered, please say so. * In fact, the patch only makes one-line changes to Browse.java in three places (where it inserts data into the tables). Everything else is additional code, except for ONE change to a JSP file, to in the admin tools to apply the same normalisation to the author name being entered for lookup, as it uses the sort_author column in the ItemsByAuthor table. Note that the above does mean that it needs to be integrated with Richard's patch when that is ready, but on the basis of what is currently available I've already designed this to have as little impact as possible. G On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 10:57 -0400, Mark Diggory wrote: > Is ICU4J a requirement still if we switch to Java 5? In which case > I'd push this off to DSpace1.5 (which will require Java 5 or > greater). And if so, it should probably be the case that we explore > its implementation in the XMLUI if any at all changes are needed. > > -Mark > > On Apr 4, 2007, at 4:53 AM, Graham Triggs wrote: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
