DSPACE 6.3: author search

[Juan López]

Hi,

I'm having some issues... when I try to search for an author that has some special characters in his name at mydspace.com/browse?type=author, I get no results.

I know that my Dspace has a lot of authors with accents characters, ¿is this a solr missconfiguration? ¿Does anyone else have this issue?

Hope you guys can help!

Best regards,

Juan.

[Petros Grammatikopoulos]

Hello

Maybe you need to use Percent-encoding for author strings with special characters?

There are many ways to do this programmatically if you wish, but you may also use a random online service for individual manual encoding.

All the best,

Petros

[al...@vt.edu]

I believe this is caused by issue DS-4034, which is resolved by pull request, https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2276 for DSpace 6.4 (and another PR for DSpace 7). I plan to try applying this as a patch to our DSpace 6.3. We have reported the issue for VTechWorks in our GitHub repository, https://github.com/VTUL/vtechworks/issues/682.

Anne Lawrence

Repository Application Administrator

https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/

[al...@vt.edu]

We successfully patched our DSpace for this issue (diacritics in author browse) and DS-4034 (0-9 in author browse) with Pull Request, https://github.com/VTUL/vtechworks/pull/779. The fix was straightforward.

[Juan López]

Ok, I'll check the Pull Request!

Thank you!

[Juan López]

So I've patched my DSpace, however, now the result behaviour is as follows:

1. If I search a name with an accent, for example "Pachón" I don't get any result (I think this is an odd behaviour).
2. If I search the same name without accents: "Pachon" I get all the people with the name Pachón and Pachon.

It seems like the patch did not fix the first odd behaviour... Is your DSpace also working like this?

[al...@vt.edu]

On our test instance with this patch

1. If I search a name with an accent, for example "Pachón"I get all the people with the name Pachón and Pachon.

1. If I search the same name without accents: "Pachon" I get all the people with the name Pachón and Pachon.