Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- en:release:3.09_release_notes [2021/02/09 04:15] – [Filenames in collections should not contain &, < and >] anupama
+++ en:release:3.09_release_notes [2023/03/13 01:46] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 ====== Greenstone 3.09 Release Notes ======
@@ Line 7: / Line 10: @@
 ** Released: **
-   * Binaries for Windows, GNU/Linux 32 and 64 bit machines, a Mac binary for High Sierra/10.13 and Mac Mojave/10.4 (but may also work on Mac Sierra/10.12).\\ All the binaries have only been spot-tested, since the 3.09 release candidates, which came out a few weeks before, were tested more extensively on all the tutorials. Source distributions and source components compile on Windows 8. \\ [[http://svn.greenstone.org/main/tags/3.09/|svn tag page]] [[http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/main/tags/3.09|trac tag page]]. Code revision up to 33119. Tag revision: 33122.
+   * Binaries for Windows, GNU/Linux 32 and 64 bit machines, a Mac binary for High Sierra/10.13 and Mac Mojave/10.14 (but may also work on Mac Sierra/10.12).\\ All the binaries have only been spot-tested, since the 3.09 release candidates, which came out a few weeks before, were tested more extensively on all the tutorials. Source distributions and source components compile on Windows 8. \\ [[http://svn.greenstone.org/main/tags/3.09/|svn tag page]] [[http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/main/tags/3.09|trac tag page]]. Code revision up to 33119. Tag revision: 33122.
       * The Mac binary is generated on High Sierra/10.13 and tested partially on that but mostly on Mojave/10.14.
       * The Windows binary was largely tested on Windows 10, but partially on Windows 8.1
@@ Line 428: / Line 431: @@
 If you get this error, then please install the CGI module for your system perl.
 ====Work Arounds====
-===Using filenames containing &, < and > in GS3.10 collections===
+===Filenames in collections should not contain < and >===
-The Enrich panel in GS3.10's GLI is better able to handle
+[**Note:** [[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1976007/what-characters-are-forbidden-in-windows-and-linux-directory-names|Windows disallows < and >]] characters in filenames anyway, so it's best to avoid such filenames even on other Operating Systems in cases where you may tranfer a Greenstone collection with documents' filenames containing < or > from one operating system to a GS3 running on Windows at any point.]
-  - &, < and >
-  - and other non-basic ASCII characters.
-When you create a collection and assign it metadata in GLI that contains such characters, GLI will now successfully preserve them between GLI sessions.
-The second set of characters listed above are still not recommended for use in metadata when dealing with a remote GS3 server, as that has to do with successfully transferring characters from an operating system in one file system encoding on the client side to possibly another operating system using another file system encoding on the GS3 server side.
+In order to have better handling of different file and filename encodings, an [[http://trac.greenstone.org/changeset/29793|sacrifice]] [[http://trac.greenstone.org/timeline?from=19.03.2015&daysback=30&ticket=on&changeset=on&milestone=on&wiki=on&update=Update|was made]] of being unable to support &, < and > characters in filenames. In Dec 2019, which is months after 3.09's release, Greenstone was modified so that GLI can now accept & in filenames. However, filenames containing < and > characters continue to make metadata.xml invalid, as a result of which, GLI won't be able to reload the metadata therein.
-It is only GLI's Enrich pane that has been fixed up to support both sets of characters in metadata. No other part of Greenstone has been fixed to cope with these characters, should they likewise struggle with them.
+A workaround is to use different characters for < and >, such as [ and ] or ( and ), or leave them out from filenames.
-The fix is often in the form of adding hex encoded entities into the metadata.xml file and decoding them back for display in GLI's Enrich pane.
 ===Greenstone applets (Phind, Collage) crash Firefox===
 See [[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789959|bugzilla report]].