[Using Sakai] Short URLs for files with non ASCII characters
Rafael Morales Gamboa
rmorales at suv.udg.mx
Fri Aug 16 14:09:42 PDT 2013
You are right Mike: Tomcat is configured to handle UTF-8 in URL but
MySQL seems not. I need to find a way to reconfigure the database with
UTF-8.
Regards,
Rafael
El 15/08/2013 06:50 p.m., Mike DeSimone escribió:
> 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 <mailto: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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