Re: [Dspace-tech] html enties (html symbols)

2009-10-08 Thread Allen Lam
Hi Terrance, Having seen your response, I do experiment on using the trick on the jspui and xmlui. I found that it works well in the jspui only. Are you using the xmlui? In the xmlui, not only the #xxx; chars cannot be reinterpreted, other originally good non-ASCII chars will be distorted by

[Dspace-tech] html enties (html symbols)

2009-10-07 Thread Terrance Davis
Hi, My users of DSpace want to insert special symbols by editing metadata of approved submissions. Inserting as an html entity doesn't work, because the is re-interpreted as a amp; before inserting in the database. Is there a way to escape the ampersand so that the raw HTML entity is not

Re: [Dspace-tech] html enties (html symbols)

2009-10-07 Thread Allen Lam
Hi Terrance, The solution depends on how you are entering data to dspace. Take a common scenario as example. If the user is opening the web-based Edit Item tool, and wishes to add a copyright sign (a circle-c) to one of the fields, he can type in #169; and save twice. To type in Greek chars,

Re: [Dspace-tech] html enties (html symbols)

2009-10-07 Thread Terrance Davis
Hi Allen, I see this works nicely during the initial submission process, but on the edit-item pages after the submission is approved (and is live), I click Update twice with no change. The symbol does not replace the unicode value. (I am using DSpace 1.5.2, btw) I have tried various