Re: [Dspace-tech] utf8 and dspace

2008-03-10 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 11:11:02AM +0800, Jayan Chirayath Kurian wrote: > In a DSpace batch import, the importer stops at special characters > (e.g. &). This can be resolved by converting into its equivalent > entity represented as "&". Is there any other solution rather > than changing this manua

Re: [Dspace-tech] utf8 and dspace

2008-03-07 Thread Jayan Chirayath Kurian
d of issues. http://repository.ntu.edu.sg/handle/113456789/7188 http://repository.ntu.edu.sg/handle/113456789/7176 Cheers! Jayan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mark H. Wood Sent: Sat 3/8/2008 3:32 AM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tec

Re: [Dspace-tech] utf8 and dspace

2008-03-07 Thread Mark H. Wood
Let's turn the question around. Is UTF-8 a problem for you? why? What would you need to make it no longer a problem? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpwGHIvxmG5p.pgp D

Re: [Dspace-tech] utf8 and dspace

2008-03-07 Thread Christian Voelker
Hello, Am 07.03.2008 um 16:49 schrieb LARC/J.L.Shipman/jshipman: > We are running dspace 1.4.2, postgresql 8, solaris 10. > Is UTF8 a necessity for dspace. My understanding is > that Sun's en_US.ISO8859-1 includes most of UTF8 except > for the far east languages. Any help is appreciated. @nasa

Re: [Dspace-tech] utf8 and dspace

2008-03-07 Thread James Rutherford
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 04:24:24PM +, Bram Luyten wrote: > the database manager class relies on the fact that the database is > UTF8. If you wish to use another standard, you will need to perform > some adjustments in that class. It also depends what you want to put into your repository. Can

Re: [Dspace-tech] utf8 and dspace

2008-03-07 Thread Bram Luyten
Dear, the database manager class relies on the fact that the database is UTF8. If you wish to use another standard, you will need to perform some adjustments in that class. with best regards, Bram Luyten On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:49 PM, LARC/J.L.Shipman/jshipman < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We

[Dspace-tech] utf8 and dspace

2008-03-07 Thread LARC/J.L.Shipman/jshipman
We are running dspace 1.4.2, postgresql 8, solaris 10. Is UTF8 a necessity for dspace. My understanding is that Sun's en_US.ISO8859-1 includes most of UTF8 except for the far east languages. Any help is appreciated. 757-864-7114 LARC/J.L.Shipman/jshipman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -