Re: [Dspace-tech] Confused About UTF-8

Hi Thomas, on a second look I notice that your LC_* variables are missing the encoding part. E.g. I have LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US:en LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 etc. That assumes that locale is present on your system. E.g. on my Debian, I would run sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales An alternative

[Dspace-tech] Confused About UTF-8

Hi, I'm a little confused about UTF-8/UNICODE locale settings for DSpace using PostgreSQL v. 9.2.1. By default, my systems are: LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE=en_US LC_NUMERIC=en_US LC_TIME=en_US LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY=en_US LC_MESSAGES=en_US LC_PAPER=en_US

Re: [Dspace-tech] Confused About UTF-8

Hi Thomas, there's very little reason to be concerned. The most important part to get right is encoding when creating the database: createdb -U dspace -E UNICODE dspace What you mentioned is default locale set in shell environment variables. DSpace (an Java in general) doesn't care about those

Re: [Dspace-tech] Confused About UTF-8

That makes a lot of sense, thanks! A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma but that's my story and I'm stickin' to it. On 07/23/2013 10:23 AM, helix84 wrote: Hi Thomas, there's very little reason to be concerned. The most important part to get right is encoding when creating the