[GeoNetwork-users] GUI-Search for special characters (ä. ö. ü, ß, * etc.) does not work in 2.6

Anja · October 12, 2010, 7:34am

Hi there,

in GeoNetwork 2.6.0 there is a Search in the GUI. If I look for metadata
containing special characters in a word like for example "Fuß"...

ä ü ö ß *...

there are no results, although the metadata is there. This was an error in
GeoNetwork 2.4 as well as far as I can remember.

Besides there is a strange behaviour concerning the German language. If you
have a title like "Am Fuße eines Berges", GeoNetwork presents the title in
capital letters: "AM FUSSE EINES BERGES". This simply is wrong, for a
capital ß does nocht exist, but you must not use SS instead, but use simply
ß. Well, a minor problem perhaps, since in Switzerland they do not even have
ß as a character at all.

Could somebody please tell me, whether the GUI-Search mechanism that cannot
find any special characters / umlauts is an error or maybe we have a
misconfiguration over here? How can we avoid this and find even the metadata
with those special character or umlauts?

Thanks for your help,
Anja
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Anja · November 1, 2010, 2:00pm

Here is the fix for the non-working search for "German umlauts":

/srv/tomcat/geonetwork-260/conf/server.xml

Change the element <Connector> in this file. Add a parameter for
URIEncoding="UTF-8".

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