Re: [Refdb-users] Question about Unicode

[Marc B. <ba...@sm...>]

Dear Markus,

thanks for your detailed answer, and sorry for the late reply.

>>> "Markus Hoenicka" said:
 >> Sorry about the installation hassles. I've been in contact with kind
 >> souls trying to package RefDB and the required libraries, but this is=

 >> apparently a pretty complex task. The build system has been modified
 >> already to allow simple "debianization", but there are no deliverable=
s
 >> yet.

Sure. Debianization would be great :))

 >>  > first problems. I have a reference with an author called H=F6=F6k,=

 >> What database server do you run? MySQL *should* accept umlauts
 >> (although I have to admit I never tried) as it uses a Latin encoding
 >> by default. PostgreSQL uses the SQL_ASCII encoding by default which I=

 >> believe does not handle umlauts. However, you can select a different
 >> encoding like LATIN1 with the -e switch of the refdba:createdb
 >> command, or you can make this the default by editing refdbdrc.

Ah I see. I used the default setting, which creates UNICODE databases wit=
h
postgres. I will try with Latin1, as this is more likely what I had in
mind.

 >>  > in. I now can at least add the reference. But if I look eg at a se=
arch
 >> The browser display problem is most likely due to the fact that the
 >> web browser does not know that these sequences are to be interpreted
 >> as Unicode characters. I'll have to find out how the RefDB-generated
 >> HTML pages could tell the browser about Unicode if the database serve=
r
 >> uses this encoding.

Yep. I think in that case one needs something like
<META http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8">=


or so in the header, but I am not sure if that's all that is required.

regards,
Marc

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