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Hi William,<br><br>
Have taken the liberty of forwarding your question to the dspace-tech
list (hosted on<br>
SourceForge) which is where technical questions are generally asked and
answered...<br><br>
MacKenzie<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:36:37
-0500<br>
From: William Simpson <wsimpson@udel.edu><br>
Organization: University of Delaware<br>
To: dspace-general@mit.edu<br>
Subject: [Dspace-general] sorting and diacritical marks in author
names<br><br>
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<pre>Having a problem with the way DSpace is sorting author names
involving diacritical marks.
Someone else posted a question about diacritical marks to the list in
April '04, and received
an answer about the database being "unicode enabled." Two
questions: Is that the reason the author sorting isn't
working for us at the University of Delaware? Can the metadata
fields be edited to fix the author
sorting problem? Thanks.
William Simpson
University of Delaware
For example, the name O'Malley returns a sort in DSpace (using Netscape
Navigator browser)
that looks like this:
</pre><h2><b>Items for Author O’Malley, Fran in All of
DSpace</b></h2><br><br>
<a href="http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/browse-author?starts_with=O%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%99Malley%2C+Fran">Return
to Browse by Author</a> <br>
<a href="http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/items-by-author?author=O%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%99Malley%2C+Fran&order=title">Sort
by Title</a> <b>Sorting by Date</b> <br><br>
<div align="center">Showing 0 items.<br>
</div>
<b>Date of Issue</b> Title Authors <br>
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