Hi
In March 2007 we had a long discussion about the encoding of UTF-8
characters and Manakin, in the manakin list..
I am testing dspace-1.5 to put into production at www.jobim.org.
With this discussion in March, with the help of Scott Phillips,
Afonso Comba Neto and Samu Viita, I could make search and browse work
with UTF-8 accented characters.
The submission aspect was also working fine without modifications. It
is still working at www.jobim.org/dspace-xmlui.
The code for search and browse in 1.5 is again not working but I can
fix it in the same way I did one year ago.
The new submission code does not work and I cannot understand why.
my configuration is:
in [tomcat]/conf/server.xml
<!-- Define a non-SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8080 -->
<Connector port="8080" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25"
maxSpareThreads="75" enableLookups="false"
redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100"
connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true"
URIEncoding="UTF-8"/>
<!-- Note : To disable connection timeouts, set
connectionTimeout value
to 0 -->
in webapp/dspace-xmlui/WEB-INF/web.xml
<!--
Set encoding used by the container. If not set the
ISO-8859-1 encoding
will be assumed.
Since the servlet specification requires that the
ISO-8859-1 encoding
is used (by default), you should never change this value
unless
you have a buggy servlet container.
-->
<init-param>
<param-name>container-encoding</param-name>
<param-value>ISO-8859-1</param-value>
</init-param>
<!--
Set form encoding. This will be the character set used
to decode request
parameters. If not set the ISO-8859-1 encoding will be
assumed.
-->
<init-param>
<param-name>form-encoding</param-name>
<param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
</init-param>
Here I have a question:
"the servlet specification requires that the ISO-8859-1 encoding is
used" .
_will this work for sites using asian characters like japanese ?
the problem we had last year and now for the search and the browse was:
whenever we had URLs using parameters we had to change the form-
encoding back to ISO-8859-1 and use the method GET for the forms.
We did that modifying some aspect code for the form method, the theme
xsl and modifying ArtifactBrowser/sitemap.xmap
<map:components>
...............
<map:actions>
<map:action name="SendFeedbackAction"
src="org.dspace.app.xmlui.aspect.artifactbrowser.SendFeedbackAction"/>
<map:action name="set-encoding"
src="org.apache.cocoon.acting.SetCharacterEncodingAction"/>
</map:actions>
................
</map:components>
and
inside the map:pipelines:
<!-- Search -->
<map:match pattern="search">
<map:transform type="SimpleSearch"/>
<map:act type="set-encoding">
<map:parameter name="form-encoding"
value="ISO-8859-1"/>
</map:act>
<map:serialize type="xml"/>
</map:match>
<map:match pattern="simple-search">
<map:transform type="SimpleSearch"/>
<map:act type="set-encoding">
<map:parameter name="form-encoding"
value="ISO-8859-1"/>
</map:act>
<map:serialize type="xml"/>
</map:match>
<map:match pattern="advanced-search">
<map:transform type="AdvancedSearch"/>
<map:act type="set-encoding">
<map:parameter name="form-encoding"
value="ISO-8859-1"/>
</map:act>
<map:serialize type="xml"/>
</map:match>
this has been done for all necessary patterns in browse and search
I have already fixed the search in dspace-1.5_xx and I think I am
going to do it for the browse too but:
Is that the correct fix?, will this work for a japanese or chinese site?
In the case of the summit aspect we dont have this mix of parameters
passed in the URLs and POST forms. it is simply a post form that
should work with the current configuration. some other forms using
post are working like in the item edit form (not in submission
describe form) and add e-people form.
Note: in all this e-mail when I say "working" I mean "working with
UTF-8 accented characters.
I think the email is already quite long.
I just wanted to bring this discussion to the dspace-tech list
because the jspui has no problems at all with encoding and some one
could bring light to the topic.
Thanks
Paulo Jobim
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