Hi Lourens,
The following documentation link provides details on wide vs narrow character
handling in Virtuoso:
http://docs.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/wideidentifiers.html#wideidentifiers
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On 9 Dec 2009, at 14:04, lourens wrote:
> Thanks Mitko,
>
> The charset_recode suggestion does work.
>
> http("v1_lab") does not:
> HT008: http requires string, blob or string session as argument 1
>
> Is there a more convenient way to output UTF8 values without the explicit
> charset_recode as all VSP text output from my sparql queries will be
> UTF-8.
>
>
> It is also clear I do not grasp the types of strings expected and returned
> at various places.(wide vss narrow). A pointer to documentation would be
> welcome.
>
> (I know sprintf('%s', "v1_lab") works, I could write a procedure I
> suppose)
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lourens
> On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 15:07:05 +0200, Mitko Iliev <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Hi Lourens,
>>
>> You could use http () function instead , it will output the utf8 string
> as
>> is . The other way is to use http_value with wide string, i.e. utf8
> first
>> should be recoded to wide :
>> "v1_lab" := charset_recode ("v1_lab", 'UTF-8', '_WIDE_') ;
>> http_value ("v1_lab");
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Mitko
>>
>>
>> On Dec 9, 2009, at 1:23 PM, lourens wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I am trying to get special characters print correctly in a vsp page.
>>> I am accessing RDF Literals. If I access them through JDBC
>>> and generate web-pages the output is as I expect.
>>>
>>> But outputting the value of a "sparql select" in a vsp page by a
>>> http_value
>>> call doesn't seem to use utf-8 encoding. I add the vsp source below.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Lourens
>>> ---------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> <HTML>
>>> <HEAD>
>>> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
>>> <TITLE>testproc</TITLE>
>>> </HEAD>
>>> <BODY>
>>>
>>> <h1>Test Proc v1</h1>
>>>
>>> <p>Some UTF-8 text:Magazijn De Bijenkorf
>>> <p>
>>> <?vsp
>>> set http_charset='UTF-8';
>>>
>>> declare _uri varchar;
>>> _uri := 'http://goo.kb.nl/gtt/138903166';
>>> FOR (sparql select ?v1_lab
>>> where {`iri(?:_uri)` skos:prefLabel ?v1_lab})
>>> DO {
>>> http_value("v1_lab");
>>> }
>>> ?>
>>> </BODY>
>>> </HTML>
>>>
>>>
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