Im still investigating this problem and I cant imagine that others have not also run into this, although it is possible they have simply not noticed.
In our Author browse list we have things like this sequence: Hill, Robert Stephen Hill, Roderick Jeffrey Hills, Brian Andrew Hills, F Hill, S. G. Hill, S. J. Hills, K. Hill, S. M. Hill, T. -- you can see that the sequence seems to be ignoring punctuation AND spaces, which is not good. The unix sort utility also produces the same sequence. I suspect this is something to do with the Unix locale settings, specifically the environment variable LC_COLLATE. On our RedHat system, this is LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8" On the old Solaris box (where the collation sequence is correct) we have LC_COLLATE=en_AU.ISO8859-1 However, on RedHat the collation from sort is only correct if I set LC_COLLATE=C So the problem appears to be two-fold: how do we get the browse sort order to be correct, including non-ASCII characters, AND how do we search words with non-ASCII characters? Any and all ideas welcomed. Stephen Thomas, Senior Systems Analyst, University of Adelaide Library UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE SA 5005 AUSTRALIA Phone: +61 8 830 35190 Fax: +61 8 830 34369 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/stephen.thomas CRICOS Provider Number 00123M ----------------------------------------------------------- This email message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information that may be confidential and/or copyright. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender by reply email and immediately delete this email. Use, disclosure or reproduction of this email by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. No representation is made that this email or any attachments are free of viruses. Virus scanning is recommended and is the responsibility of the recipient. ________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Thomas Sent: Monday, 2 July 2007 3:28 pm To: [email protected] Subject: [Dspace-tech] Non-ASCII Unicode and searching in DSpace Hi. We recently moved from a Solaris box to an HP running RHEL. Now I find that search and browse no longer work with words containing non-ASCII Unicode characters, e.g. the name Mühlhäusler. This doesnt show up in the browse list, and searches fail to find it. Was there something we missed in the installation, or is this an artefact of using RHEL? Were still on DSpace 1.3.2 Display is fine, just the searching is a problem. Cheers, Steve Stephen Thomas, Senior Systems Analyst, University of Adelaide Library UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE SA 5005 AUSTRALIA Phone: +61 8 830 35190 Fax: +61 8 830 34369 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/stephen.thomas CRICOS Provider Number 00123M ----------------------------------------------------------- This email message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information that may be confidential and/or copyright. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender by reply email and immediately delete this email. Use, disclosure or reproduction of this email by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. No representation is made that this email or any attachments are free of viruses. Virus scanning is recommended and is the responsibility of the recipient. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
