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Re: Antw: [EP-tech] cannot insert * in the abstract

From: Yuri <yurj AT alfa.it>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:18:35 +0200


Threading: [EP-tech] cannot insert =?UTF-8?B?zrIgaW4gdGhlIGFic3RyYWN0?= from yurj AT alfa.it
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Helge Knuettel ha scritto:
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>>>> Yuri <yurj AT alfa.it> schrieb am 25.09.2008 um 10:51  
in Nachricht
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> <EMEW-k8OAJ59a967d20ed163a7a9c4d1d99c8c5b3f2-48DB50F7.1020401 AT 
alfa.it>:
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>> *** 
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http://www.eprints.org/tech.php/id/%3CEMEW-k8OAJ59a967d20ed163a7a9c4d1d99c8c5
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>> b3f2-48DB50F7.1020401%40alfa.it%3E
>> *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/ 
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>> * can't be inserted (as alfa, gamma and so on) in the abstracts,
>>     
> Eprints 
>   
>> 2.3 and Eprints 3.1
>>
>> Can someone make a patch and help us to have those useful greek 
>> characters available?
>>     
>
> Dealing with character encodings can be a real pain in the neck. But, I
> don't think you nedd a patch.
>
> We have been inserting higher order UTF-8 characters in EP 2.3 and EP
> 3.0.3 (and earlier versions) successfully for years. Make sure that you
> really insert characters with UTF-8 encoding. There is weird code out in
> the web to make non-English characters appear in web sites. To make
> things easier we have a help page where you can copy and paste UTF-8
> encoded characters in to the form fields. Works for all text fields in
> EPrints:
>
> http://epub.uni-regensburg.de/help/utf8.html 
>   
? (your) don't works for me, while ->
? works for me

The problem rised when an "admin" here upgraded the mysql database 
from 
4.1 to 5.0...

> Feel free to adopt for your own needs.
>
> In the site's CSS we asked (Windows) clients to use the "Arial 
Unicode
> MS" font to enhance the chance that characters are shown correctly:
>
> font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",verdana,arial,sans-serif;
>   

Thanks :)

> Good Luck
> Helge
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