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[EP-tech] Re: international character search problem

On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:46:37 +0000, Tommy Ingulfsen
<tommy@library.caltech.edu> wrote:
> I may have found a bug in EPrints 3.3.10. One of the authors in our
> repository is Anıl Zenginoğlu (if the name doesn't come out right in
> email, his homepage is  http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~anil/). Searching
> for the surname works fine with the simple search, but with the advanced
> search we don't get any results. I believe the problem is with line 230
in
> perl_lib/EPrints/MetaField/Name.pm:
> 
> # remove not a-z characters (except ,)
> $v2 =~ s/[^a-z,]/ /ig;
> 
> That code splits up "zenginoğlu" to "zengino lu". A possible solution
may
> be
> 
> use utf8;
> …
> $v2 =~ s/[^\p{L},]/ /ig;
> …
> 
> Maybe someone with a strong encodings-fu can comment?

Hi,

I've written a fix here:
https://github.com/eprints/eprints/issues/13

-- 
All the best,
Tim.