eprints_tech messages

From: "Roman Chyla" <roman.chyla AT gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:19:46 +0200

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Hi Helge,

a nice help page :)

>>
>> 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

and are you able to search for these characters? And make them
lowercase/uppercase? eg because of indexing? Or normalize them into
one character for the sake of indexing again?
I don't think you can. Basically, what you were able to do all that
years was to save them as binary data, and that's not to be serious
with UTF8

> 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

because you see it is displayed correctly, it does not mean your
E-Prints installation handles utf8 correctly

> 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
>
> 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;

Yuri has used Wikipedia and a browser - so I think he has had the
characters displayed properly (and even when pasted in the form).
IMO, it is plainly wrong to suggest to people that the problem is on
the presentation end (in the browser).

Best regards,

--roman