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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

I think this problem could be used to open a wider discussion. Should we 
introduce another config option - a short name for the institution used 
for filename generation and if such an option were introduced, should it 
be one for all languages, or like the institution name, allow multiple 
language variants. We did have another case when the institution name 
contained both the long and the short version and when shortened this 
resulted in the short version repeated twice. This is something we would 
not be able to do anything about, unless we would allow the admin to add 
fixed string for this.

Of coures we would program stuff in such a way that when no short name 
was available, the current algorithm would be used instead.

So, any opinions?

Tomasz


W dniu 2013-04-15 09:49, Stefan Winter pisze:
> Hi,
>
> > Høgskolen i Østfold have reported a minor "problem" with CAT profile
> > filename.
> >
> > For the institution "Høgskolen i Østfold" a file with the name
> > "eduroam_his_W7.exe" is produced.
> > That is the letter Ø in the beginning is ignored, and HiS is a different
> > institution.
> > Not a hugh problem, but it would be good if ÆØÅ could be included - or
> > one option is to substitute Æ = ae, Ø - oe, Å = aa
> Thanks for the report!
>
> We currently translate from the "pretty-print" user interface name to
> filesystem file names by converting to US-ASCII, *ignoring* all
> non-ASCII characters.
>
> We could to this with *transliteration* instead, which would turn the Ø
> into an O (probably; this is a PHP-internal decision).
>
> This would create a filename with "HiO" instead (good enough?) - it is
> really not very advisable to keep the literal Ø as part of the file
> name. You never know if some operating systems / filesystems don't like
> these characters.
>
> I'll leave it to Tomasz Wolniewicz to try this out though, this is his
> code, not mine :-)
>
> Stefan
>
> > Br
> > Tom Myren
> > UNINETT AS - 7465 Trondheim, tlf. 73 55 79 00 - fax 73 55 79 01
> > Direkte innvalg 73 55 79 14 - mobil 92600199
> > http://www.uninett.no
> >
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject:        filnavn på CAT
> > Date:   Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:21:23 +0000
> > From:   Nils O.B Bekken 
> > <nils.o.bekken AT hiof.no>
> > To:     Tom Ivar Myren 
> > (tom.myren AT uninett.no)
> >  
> > <tom.myren AT uninett.no>
> >
> >
> >
> > Hei
> >
> > Et lite spørsmål, det ser ut til at vi har en liten utfordring med Ø i CAT 
> > systemet.
> > Det er ikke noe kjempeproblem, men jeg ser at når jeg legger inn standardnavn 
> > slik:
> >
> > Institusjonsdetaljer
> > Land            Norge
> > Institusjonsnavn        standard/andre språk    Høgskolen i Østfold
> > Institusjonsnavn        English(GB)     Østfold University College
> > Institusjonsnavn                Høgskolen i Østfold
> >
> > Så får fila som produserer ved nedlasting navn eduroam-W7-His.exe og det kan 
> > være litt misvisende.
> > Hvis jeg setter institusjonsnavn til f.eks. HiOf så blir navn deretter, men 
> > det blir igjen feil i lista.
> >
> > Har du vært borte i noe tilsvarende?
> >
> > Mvh
> >
> > Nils.
> >
> > --
> > Nils Olav B. Bekken - Senioringeniør - Høgskolen i Østfold - IT-Drift - 1757 
> > Halden
> > Besøksadresse Braveien 4 - Remmen - 1783 Halden -
> > +47 69 21 53 52 - 
> > <sip:nils.o.bekken AT hiof.no>

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