[Dspace-general] Diacritics (was: subscripts in abstracts)

[Hutchinson, Alvin]

Dspace users-

We are also wrestling with a similar problem regarding subscript, diacritics or other nonstandard characters. I am batch-importing Dspace content from a Microsoft Access database that I export to XML. Accented, scientific and other characters are not translating well. Many of the characters are encoded for html as in: ' or á but the importer identifies these as undeclared elements. If I change them to their actual characters ' or á in an editor before importing, they become garbled when I upload the file to the (Unix) server.

I have tried changing the UTF-8 encoding designation but with no luck. I am willing to do a global find-and-replace to get the characters right but I haven't found the right replacement characters.

I may have to end up editing these items by hand after they are imported but I would obviously like to avoid that.

Is anyone else doing likewise and/or having similar problems?

Alvin Hutchinson
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
(202) 633-1031
 

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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:58:25 +0100
From: "Nockels, K.H." <khn5 at leicester.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Subscripts in abstracts
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Dear All,

I only see the digest of this list so have only just seen the messages
about this, which started with Marty Courtois' question about subscripts
and superscripts in abstracts.

I have had the same problem, and also a problem with accented characters
in other European languages.  We have an application called Character
Map, which looks to be a Microsoft product.   It is installed on the
University network here.

I can select the character I want in Character Map, and then copy and
paste it directly into the DSpace submission form.  This solves the
problem most of the time.

I don't think it has italic characters, but am not sure.

Hope this helps, 

Best wishes,




Keith 

Keith Nockels
Leicester Research Archive Manager
University of Leicester
Leicester, England - UK

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