Re: [Rdfapi-php-interest] Non-ASCII characters in SPARQL Query results

[Sean B. <sea...@ma...>]

On 19 Apr 2007, at 17:20, Sean Bechhofer wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> I've recently started using RAP 0.9.4. Seems to be going well, but I
> have a problem with non-ASCII characters in query results. I'm using
> RAP to query a sesame2 server using SPARQL. The data in the
> repository has literals with non-ascii characters (encoded using
> UTF-8). If I query the repository using XML as the output format, the
> result I get back contains the literals as I'd expect.
>
> However, if I query with an array output format, when I inspect the
> literal values, they end up being truncated at the point where the
> non-ASCII characters occur in the literal.
>
> Any ideas? Is it possible to get these literals using the array
> style? Do I need to set something in order to make this happen? I
> guess I *could* use xml query output, but I like the convenience of
> the array style.

I think this is probably an issue somewhere within the methods that  
convert the results in the SPARQL Engine. I tried querying using the  
xml output format, then parsing the results myself and pulling out  
the literals. That works fine.....

	Sean

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Sean Bechhofer
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