[OAI-implementers] Re: SPECIAL CHARACTERS...

[Tim Brody]

utf-8 support in Perl 5.6 isn't very good.

I haven't tried Perl 5.8, but it should allow you do handle multiple
character sets more gracefully (see
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perluniintro.html).

Without installing it myself I don't know how it works with databases.

The Encode module in 5.8 would seem to provide whatever conversions would be
needed from your database character set to utf-8.
(its entirely possible Perl 5.8 will just work transparently ...)

All the best,
Tim.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ramon Martins Sodoma da Fonseca" <ramon@ibict.br>
To: "OAI Implementers" <oai-implementers@oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu>; "Steve
Sarapata" <ssarapat@enc.org>; "Tim Brody" <tim@tim.brody.btinternet.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 2:06 PM
Subject: SPECIAL CHARACTERS...


Hello group,

We are having problems with the character encoding.
We need to display special charaters, like "ç, ã, ö", and others, and our
question is:

1) does Perl (or the OAI) have any function to encode correctly the
characters coming from the DataBase?

or

2) Do we have to insert the characters with the correct encoding (UTF-8)
into the database (because the Protocol requires it)??

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