Re: [Dspace-tech] Browse by Author/Subject in Chinese

Hi Hayden, In our case, for items having chinese author names, there are usually pinyin or various kinds of latinized representation of the names in the record. All names are naturally ordered, i.e. A-Z list first and then the chinese names. So you'll see surnames Lee, then Li, then inside the

Re: [Dspace-tech] Browse by Author/Subject in Chinese

Thanks Allen. If HKU is satisfied with natural ordering then it should be more than sufficient for our project as well. Are you handling pinyin, or latinized, names as well within your author lists? If so, are they listed along with the chinese names and how are they sorted on the screen? Chee

Re: [Dspace-tech] Browse by Author/Subject in Chinese

Hi Hayden, Part of our dspace items are having chinese titles and chinese author names. We do not have special ordering for any specific languages so that chinese texts are ordered in their "natural ordering". We are storing data in UTF-8. The meaning of "natural" is that when each char (in engl

[Dspace-tech] Browse by Author/Subject in Chinese

We have a DSpace instance which is storing metadata in the Chinese language. We are wondering whether anybody has tackled this and been successful in ordering the Author and Subject correctly. If so, did you use the stroke, binary or phonetic method for sorting the relevant fields. Cheers Hay