On 2003年8月13日, Todd White wrote: > is there a limited number of valid character encodings for a valid OAI > repository? You must use UTF-8, see: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/openarchivesprotocol.htm#XMLResponse > the encoding i am using is "ISO-8859-1" this is to support some special > characters in our metadata that were not supported by UTF-8. I believe all of ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) is supported in Unicode with code positions unchanged. The bytes will, of course, be different in a UTF-8 encoded stream. Note that Microsoft's CP1252 uses codes 0x80--0xBF which aren't in Latin 1 and do require translation to different Unicode code positions, see: ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT Cheers, Simeon > when i tested our newly developed OAI respository software using the > web-based Open Archives Initiative - Repository Explorer > (http://oai.dlib.vt.edu/cgi-bin/Explorer/oai2.0/testoai) it told me... >> XML Schema Validation Error ! > Illegal character encoding in XML >> here's the URL to our repository: > http://michiganteacher.net/oai >> _______________________________________________ > OAI-implementers mailing list > List information, archives, preferences and to unsubscribe: > http://oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu/mailman/listinfo/oai-implementers