[RAS] HTML encoded author names

[Christian Zimmermann]

Some authors are getting frustrated because they are not finding some of 
their works for the following reason: Some templates have HTML encoded 
accents and such. As ACIS is treating everything as UTF-8, it does not 
recognize these encodings and cannot find a match with name variations.

The solution, I think, is to preprocess the entering template with a HTML 
to UTF-8 filter. I have previously suggested on repec-run to include such 
a filter in ReDIF-perl, but Thomas suggest this should be done by the 
services individually. As RAS is by far the one suffering the most from 
this problem, I thus ask that this be done.

I have added this to my RAS wish list: 
http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/personal/raswish.html

Christian Zimmermann                                     FIGUGEGL!
Department of Economics
University of Connecticut
341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063
Storrs, CT 06269-1063
http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/   christian.zimmermann at uconn.edu
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pzi1.html