[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > I'm replying to the list in case this helps anyone else, or, more > probably, in case someone can point out the stupidity of my workaround > when importing items. > > What problems are you suffering exactly? Funky characters showing up > instead?
We get error message during submission and bad characters showing up. > If you take a look at http://hdl.handle.net/10289/875, the > dc.identifier.citation field uses macrons (eg. Māori). We've had no real > problem with this. That's Dspace 1.4.2, JSPUI. This is with 1.5.* and Manakin / XML/UI. > I didn't have a lot to do with content on the server I've linked to > there, but I've recently been importing large numbers of theses and > dissertations from an ADT repository to a test Dspace server, and have > had to convert a lot of UTF-8 characters like vowels with macrons and > umlauts into their HTML equivalents to satisfy > org.dspace.app.itemimport.ItemImport. A Maori macron "a" is ā, for > example. > > This might have very bad side effects when any non-HTML manipulation or > indexing of metadata is going on, so I welcome any criticism or pointers > there. > (For instance, authors' names with umlaut-u in them display fine when > browsing by title or after a search, but click that author's name to > start a new 'browse by author', and the character becomes garbled and no > search results are found.) I'd check that the connector was handling the URLs correctly. Check http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03041.html Alternatively, you could write an update for the "text_value" column of the "metadatavalue" table, which is where all these fields are stored. [I didn't see your response on the list, even though you cc'd the list, following up to the list in case other's are having these problems.] cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Te Pātaka Kōrero o Te Whare Wānanga o te Ūpoko o te Ika a Māui http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional Repository ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
