[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Problems exporting EAD with non-ASCII characters

[Mulfort, Ann]

Hi, Kate-

I'm still learning AS, so you may have thought of this.

Have you tried converting your characters into UTF-8 Unicode before export?
Here's a handy conversion tool:
http://unicode-table.com/en/#control-character

Best,


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On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Kate Tasker <ktasker at library.berkeley.edu>
wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> Has anyone had any success with exporting EAD when component titles
> include diacritical marks (non-ASCII characters like é or ö)?
>
> We are trying to export the EAD for a finding aid with about 30
> diacritical marks, but the export crashes as soon as it encounters one of
> these characters. The characters were entered directly into ASpace using
> alt codes (for example ALT 148). We have also tried using the Windows
> character map to copy and paste the characters.
>
> I tested this in our sandbox and was able to successfully export EAD, but
> we are not able to export from our production version.
>
> There's a related Pivotal Tracker story here:
> https://www.pivotaltracker.com/s/projects/386247/stories/72522748
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
>
> -Kate
>
> Kate Tasker
> Digital Collections Archivist
> The Bancroft Library
> University of California
> Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
>
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