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[EP-tech] Re: Accented character issues

Okay, I see the creator list - I think I can see how that breaks down;
where would I find the abstract view functions to compare the two?

On 07/03/2014 14:26, "Alan.Stiles" <Alan.Stiles@open.ac.uk> wrote:

>Hi Andrew,
>
>It looks like the abstract page is rendering correctly, but the creators
>view isn't.  There appears to be some normalisation happening on your
>creator names in the view so hopefully you can track down the appropriate
>section and compel it to use UTF-8
>
>If you look in ~/archives/ARCHIVEID/cfg./cfg.d/views.pl
>
>Within the config value
>        $c->{browse_views} = [
>
>There should be a section labelled
>                id => "creators",
>With a sub-section
>                        menus =>[
>within which you hopefully have a
>                                grouping_function => "SOME FUNCTION NAME",
>
>If you can find that grouping function (probably also in cfg.d) it might
>give you a clue?
>
>I know our system handles the extended characters okay, but also that
>it's been somewhat customised, so I don't know whether your issue is due
>to any local customisation?
>
>Alan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andrew Beeken [mailto:anbeeken@lincoln.ac.uk]
>Sent: 07 March 2014 12:24
>To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
>Subject: [EP-tech] Accented character issues
>
>Hello!
>
>Okay, next question from me :) We¹ve noticed that accented characters are
>being handled differently in different parts of the system.
>
>Compare the author name on a single EPrint:
>http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/12484/ where the author name is correctly
>accented, to the output on the author list:
>http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/view/creators/index.M.html where the name is
>not being translated correctly and the unicode is being output as is. Is
>this a known issue and, if so, is there a recommended fix?
>
>Andrew
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