Hi Tupac, > I'm from Merida, Venezuela. I work at SABER-ULA, the largest institutional > repository in my country. Right now we're trying to move from privative SW > to DSpace 1.4.2, but we don't want to lose our visibility in the WWW. > that's why we are trying to redirect all the link's from our old site to > the new one via Apache mod_rewrite. we use spanish language in both, but > the encoding is iso-8859-1 in the old repository, and utf-8 in the new > one. that creates a problem while we try to redirect url's that contain > special characters like ñ, í, ó, ú... etc. for example: in iso-8859-1 ó is > encoded to %f3, in utf-8 ó is encoded to %c3%b3, that means DSpace is not > able to understand an url containing ó, i changed encoding settings in > tomcat from utf-8 to iso-8859-1 and it worked perfectly, but the idea is > to keep utf-8 because of it's universality... i thougth about a few code > lines working as a cgi program in apache that translate or convert iso to > utf, but i don't know if i have to do it manually or there is a function > or a library in any language that can be usefull to my problem. any > comment is greetly received... >
There are also problems with other special characters in DSpace when you do not use UTF-8 url encoding which have come up on this list before, so you should definitely try to stick with that. Perhaps the "safest" solution is to offer a web page at the old urls to point to the new urls, and a slightly delayed http redirect? Not very nice solution - I guess it will depend on the volume of your data and how many visitors you get as to whether it's worth the suffering. Or: Can you run another web server (tomcat) which is set up to receive your iso-8859-1 encoded urls, which runs them through a java process which will literally just take the string tomcat gives it (correctly decoded) and re-codes it in UTF-8, and sends back an http redirect immediately to your dspace tomcat instance set up to receive utf-8? Cheers, Richard > Tupac Amaru Bastidas Celis > > SABER-ULA > Centro de Teleinformación - ULA > Corporación Parque Tecnológico de Mérida > Av. 4, Edif. Gral. Masini, Piso 3, Of. A-34 > Tlf: +58 274 2524192 ext. 21 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services > for just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > -- Richard Jones Research Engineer, HP Labs eml: [EMAIL PROTECTED] blg: http://chronicles-of-richard.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
