[Using Sakai] Short URLs for files with non ASCII characters

[Mike DeSimone]

Hi Rafael,

Sometimes things like this are due to database settings and tomcat
connector settings.  Can you confirm the 8080 connector
has URIEncoding="UTF-8"?  Also, if this is MySQL, then ensure this is in
the my.cnf: character_set_server=utf8 and the database was created with
utf8 encoding.

more info can be found here:
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+CLE+2.9+Release+Notes#SakaiCLE29releasenotes-Databasesupport
and:
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=82249313(section
3 for tomcat setup)

I also have found that files cannot easily be renamed in the Sakai UI.  Not
sure if there's any other solution than your suggestion.


Thanks,

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On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Rafael Morales Gamboa
<rmorales at suv.udg.mx>wrote:

>  Hello,
>
> On Sakai 2.9.1 I uploaded a file to Resources that was called
> 'Introducción a Sakai - Perspectiva del Usuario.pdf' in my computer, and I
> renamed it to 'Introducción a Sakai.pdf' in Resources and made it public.
> Under properties I can see now its URL:
>
>
> http://virtual.cudi.edu.mx:8080/access/content/group/8bf73c8c-0968-4914-8c44-918d76fa3896/Introducci%C3%B3n%20a%20Sakai%20-%20Perspectiva%20del%20Usuario.pdf
>
> So, the URL is composed from the original name of the file in my computer,
> and I cannot see a way to change it unless renaming the file in my computer
> before uploading it to Resources.
>
> Now, if I choose the Short URL option I get the URL
> http://virtual.cudi.edu.mx:8080/x/HaqXOC, and at least three distinct
> behaviours in browser (latest public releases of them):
>
>    1. In Firefox, I get error 404.
>    2. In Chrome, it is translated to
>    http://virtual.cudi.edu.mx:8080/access/content/group/8bf73c8c-0968-4914-8c44-918d76fa3896/Introducci%F3n%20a%20Sakai%20-%20Perspectiva%20del%20Usuario.pdf('ó' is encoded as %F3 instead of %C%B3) and I get error 404.
>    3. In Internet Explorer it works! ('ó' is just 'ó').
>
> The questions are (1) why do I get all this different behaviours? and (2)
> how can I get it to work on all these browsers?
>
> Regards,
> Rafael
>
>
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