Thanks Richard I apreciate your comment and i agree, the first case is imposible to be taken as a solution, our site is www.saber.ula.ve it is really huge and really old!! the download and visit stats are extremely large. and really important sites like http://www.comunidadandina.org/bda/default.aspx point to us, sometimes directly to a pdf file, we don't see a page linking to our dspace like a solution.
The second case is the one i post here: >>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 is no difference if i do that with apache or with tomcat, the thing is that i don't know if i have to do that conversion manually (make the regular expressions and equivalence table by myself), or if any programming language have a library with functions that are able to help me!!! i have good knowledges in c++ programming, java, html, php and others. also i can design efficient algorithms, but i have been handling only a few libraries in my career, and certainly right there is the tool i need right now to solve my problem! Sorry but i'm not a professional, i'm still a pre-grade student making my thesis in a really good theme, endorsed by a very good corporation. Thanks for the help and excuse my english. > 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/ > > 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
