[Dspace-general] non-standard characters in DSpace

[Bram Luyten]

A resource that I found useful, regarding unicode and special character
representation:
http://barzilai.org/math_sym.htm

The full lists and descriptions are available at http://www.unicode.org/ but
I found those less easy to use.

best regards,

Bram

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2009/12/14 Steve Thomas <stephen.thomas at adelaide.edu.au>

>  I made a small (easy) change to edit-item-form.jsp to help with this. The
> change adds a table of "special" characters to the end of the edit form, so
> you can copy and paste the character required from the table.
>
> Happy to share that with anyone interested.
>
> Alternatively, you can make a table of the characters you regularly use,
> using Word or whatever, and copy-paste from that. Just be sure the encoding
> of the file or page you copy from is UTF-8.
>
> There should be no problem copying from any page where the encoding is
> UTF-8.
>
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> S Nieminen wrote:
>
>  Hi All,
>
>
>
> Can anyone advise me on how to include non-standard characters in the
> dc.abstract field - or any field at all – when creating a bib record in
> Dpsace , please? For example, I have an abstract with entries like the
> following
>
>  GF(pl)
>
>
>
> but the superscript “l” does not carry through when I copy and paste from
> e.g. a Word document or from the web. What I end up having is GF(pl). There
> are many occasions like this where we wish to include mathematical
> characters that simply won’t transfer to DSpace.
>
>
>
>
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>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Satu
>
>
>
> Ms Satu Nieminen
> eResources Librarian
>
> University of Bradford
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> Richmond Road
> Bradford
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> Email s.nieminen at bradford.ac.uk
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