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BQS — unicode/wstring issue

  • Key: BQS-7
  • Legacy Issue Number: 4521
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Japan Biological Informatics Consortium ( Martin Senger)
  • Summary:

    Bibliographic repositories may deal with citations using non-ascii
    characters (for example MEDLINE is using unicode for foreign characters).
    Sending such strings using IDL type 'string' will result in a CORBA
    exception (character encoding error, or something like that). The problem
    is not with attributes stored and sent in the dynamic properties - they
    are wrapped in CORBA Anys, and therefore may be encoded using IDL
    type 'wstring' without changing BQS IDL - but the problem is with
    explicitly specified attributes.

    Resolution:
    To change the type of the following attributes (and typedefs) from
    'string' to 'wstring':

    • in DsLSRBibObjects module: Keywords, surname, first_name,
      mid_initials, postal_address, affiliation, name (in Organisation, Service,
      and Journal), the_abstract, table_of_contents, title
    • in DsLSRBibQuery module: PhraseList
  • Reported: BQS 1.0b1 — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BQS 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    see below

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT