This is interesting too. When I edit the item in DSpace 1.5.1 and copy the correct title into the input text box, it ends up looking like this on both the “Edit item” screen and the DSpace long listing page:
First results for 13CH4 at 7 μm ç Note the Greek letter after the 7 is displaying correctly, but the 13 is no longer a superscript and the 4 is no longer a subscript.
But when I look at the title on the Item page (Short listing), this is how it looks:
First Results for 13CH4 at 7 {mu}m ç Note the Greek letter after the 7 is now displaying as {mu}.
Is there anything I can do to correct this in DSpace?
Thanks,
Sue
Sue Walker-Thornton
Software Developer/Database Administrator
NASA Langley Research Center|LITES Contract
(757) 224-4074
From: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[LITES]
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 11:25 AM
To: 'Allen Lam'; dspace-tech <at> lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Dspace-tech] Question about replacement of special characters in XML
Here’s an example of a portion of a title I’m having problems with. This is how the title is supposed to look:
…results for 13CH4 at 7 μm…
Even if I edit the item and copy and paste the text into the title, this is how it ends up looking in DSpace:
…Results for 13CH4 at 7 {mu}m…
Sue Walker-Thornton
Software Developer/Database Administrator
NASA Langley Research Center|LITES Contract
(757) 224-4074
From: Allen Lam [mailto:allen.dspace <at> gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 9:29 PM
To: dspace-tech <at> lists.sourceforge.net; Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[LITES]
Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Question about replacement of special characters in XML
Hi Sue,
It is not necessary to convert all chars into html reference, except for a few special chars not usable in xml.
All you need is to define and save the xml file in utf-8.
Appended an example file with some special chars in its original form. Open it in a browser.
(don't know can this mailing list retain the appended file)
Best,
Allen Lam.
HKU Scholars Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk
On 2010-12-30 10:22 AM, Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[LITES] wrote:
Hi,
We are working on an interface between a legacy system and DSpace 1.5.1 and I keep running into problems with special characters in the text. NASA research documents have lots of different special characters in them – some of them are common ones such as the degree symbol - ° and some of them are more uncommon ones such as “right ceiling” -
⌉ (see
http://myhandbook.info/codes_htmlchr.html for a pretty good list of symbols and their equivalent “character references”). The interface is fairly new and so far we’ve just been adding code to the extract program that outputs an xml file, to replace the special character or symbol with the equivalent “character reference” as we identify them. Inevitably though, the program is going to abend when it finds a symbol we haven’t coded for and we’re going to have to keep changing it to replace new symbols.
I did some Googling today, trying to find an already-existing JAVA method or class that replaces symbols with the equivalent character reference, hoping that I don’t have to write one myself, but so far have not found one. Does anyone know of one?
Thanks in advance,
Sue
Sue Walker-Thornton
Software Developer/Database Administrator
NASA Langley Research Center|LITES Contract
SGT, Inc.|130 Research Drive
Hampton, Va. 23666
Office: (757) 224-4074
Mobile: (757) 506-9903
Fax: (757) 224-4001
susan.m.thornton <at> nasa.gov
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