Harvesting Cyrillic UTF-8 Archives

[Imago]

Dear Friends,

Cyrillic utf8 sites are getting problems while being harvested, say here

http://pkp.sfu.ca/harvester/viewarchive.php?id=268 (ISO encoding)

Using the last release of the Harvester, before installation all ISO charsets in the code have been replaced by UTF-8

Both programs, OJS and Harvester process Russian OK when entered directly, but harvested Cyrillic characters are not recognized, see here

http://meta.scindex.org/archives.php?id=1 (utf-8 encoding)

Both sites are on one and the same server using PHP 5.0.1 and MySQL 4.1.14

Russian e-Journal at http://www.slavica.org/index.php/bulrus has been successfully tested and accepted with http://www.openarchives.org/Register/ValidateSite and http://re.cs.uct.ac.za

It goes without sayng that all possible charset values in my.cnf are set to cp1251 in all possible sections, see here.

TIA for any help!

[asmecher]

Hello Imago,

We're entering the testing phase of a new release of the PKP Harvester; whereas the current stable release of the Harvester uses Latin1, the new version will use UTF-8. It's a complete rewrite based on the OJS 2.x codebase. I've just added your archive to our testing deployment and it is displaying properly.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[Imago]

That's a great news. And a great relief. I am looking forward to the release of the new PKP harvester.

Thank you for the excellent service you provide to the academic and scholarly community.