Sue,
Is your tomcat server.xml set to utf-8?
Laurie Nelson
REAP Administrator
SIL International
On 1/3/2011 11:15 AM, dspace-tech-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 10:31:03 -0600
> From: "Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[LITES]"
> <susan.m.thorn...@nasa.gov>
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Question about replacement of special
> characters in XML
> To: Allen Lam<allen.dsp...@gmail.com>,
> "dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net"
> <dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Message-ID:
> <03de6124b1f32240b3692ed5e591ed16052eed2...@ndmsscc07.ndc.nasa.gov>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> This is interesting too. When I edit the item in DSpace 1.5.1 and copy the
> correct title into the input text box, it ends up looking like this on both
> the ?Edit item? screen and the DSpace long listing page:
>
> First results for 13CH4 at 7 ?m<== Note the Greek letter after the 7 is
> displaying correctly, but the 13 is no longer a superscript and the 4 is no
> longer a subscript.
>
> But when I look at the title on the Item page (Short listing), this is how it
> looks:
>
> First Results for 13CH4 at 7 {mu}m<== Note the Greek letter after the 7 is
> now displaying as {mu}.
>
>
> Is there anything I can do to correct this in DSpace?
>
> Thanks,
> Sue
>
>
>
>
>
> Sue Walker-Thornton
> Software Developer/Database Administrator
> NASA Langley Research Center|LITES Contract
> (757) 224-4074
>
>
> From: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[LITES]
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 11:25 AM
> To: 'Allen Lam'; dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Dspace-tech] Question about replacement of special characters
> in XML
>
> Here?s an example of a portion of a title I?m having problems with. This is
> how the title is supposed to look:
>
> ?results for 13CH4 at 7 ?m?
>
>
> Even if I edit the item and copy and paste the text into the title, this is
> how it ends up looking in DSpace:
>
> ?Results for 13CH4 at 7 {mu}m?
>
>
>
>
> Sue Walker-Thornton
> Software Developer/Database Administrator
> NASA Langley Research Center|LITES Contract
> (757) 224-4074
>
>
> From: Allen Lam [mailto:allen.dsp...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 9:29 PM
> To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net; Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[LITES]
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Question about replacement of special characters
> in XML
>
> Hi Sue,
>
> It is not necessary to convert all chars into html reference, except for a
> few special chars not usable in xml.
> All you need is to define and save the xml file in utf-8.
>
> Appended an example file with some special chars in its original form. Open
> it in a browser.
> (don't know can this mailing list retain the appended file)
>
> Best,
> Allen Lam.
> HKU Scholars Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk
>
>
> On 2010-12-30 10:22 AM, Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[LITES] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We are working on an interface between a legacy system and DSpace 1.5.1
> and I keep running into problems with special characters in the text. NASA
> research documents have lots of different special characters in them ? some
> of them are common ones such as the degree symbol - ? and some of them are
> more uncommon ones such as ?right ceiling? - ? (see
> http://myhandbook.info/codes_htmlchr.html for a pretty good list of symbols
> and their equivalent ?character references?). The interface is fairly new
> and so far we?ve just been adding code to the extract program that outputs an
> xml file, to replace the special character or symbol with the equivalent
> ?character reference? as we identify them. Inevitably though, the program is
> going to abend when it finds a symbol we haven?t coded for and we?re going to
> have to keep changing it to replace new symbols.
>
>
>
> I did some Googling today, trying to find an already-existing JAVA
> method or class that replaces symbols with the equivalent character
> reference, hoping that I don?t have to write one myself, but so far have not
> found one. Does anyone know of one?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Sue
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Sue Walker-Thornton
>
> Software Developer/Database Administrator
>
> NASA Langley Research Center|LITES Contract
>
> SGT, Inc.|130 Research Drive
>
> Hampton, Va. 23666
>
> Office: (757) 224-4074
>
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>
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