Can you confirm what is being written into the database?

For the item metadata, all the values are written into CLOB columns.

The Collection/Community name is a VARCHAR2.

I suspect there is an issue in the way that the values are being written
to / read from those two different types of columns.

G

Pere Villega wrote:
> Hi,
>
> maybe someone can help me. I'm using JSPUI in Dspace 1.5 and I'm having
> a really odd issue with encoding. When I submit any document with Irish
> characters (á,é, etc.) in any of its fields, it works fine, and it shows
> them on the item view.
>
> But if i use the same characters to name a community/collection, it
> doesn't work. It shows me the "?" char (under firefox) that means it
> can't decode it.
>
> The "oddest" thing is that if I submit an item to a collection, using
> those special characters to name both, in the item view page I see the
> special chars of the item (á, etc) but I see "?" instead of the special
> ones of the collection.
>
> Database is Oracle using UTF-8, and as items characters are working it
> should not be that problem. Tomcat uses UTF-8 encoding (set in
> connector).
>
> Any idea? It's driving me crazy.
>
> My system:
> - Debian server
> - Oracle 10.0.2.0
> - Database with al32utf8 (utf-8) encoding
> - Tomcat 6.0.13
> - JDK 6
>
>
> Best regards,
> Pere Villega
>
>
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