I've just tried using export.pl on a collection containing Unicode characters and it worked fine for me. What OS and version of Greenstone are you using?

Perhaps you could send me personally a couple of your documents and the command you ran and I'll try it here.

All the best,

Michael

papadimi@ceid.upatras.gr
papadimi@ceid.upatras.gr wrote:

>Hi all, i recently used exportcol.pl utility to export my metadata from GAF to
>METS. The conversion is ok but i have a problem with greek charaters: they
>aren't displayed well in the docmets.xml files although they look fine in the
>original doc.xml files. I don't know any perl so do you have any idea of what
>could be wrong?
>
>Thanks a lot in advance
>Regards,
>Peter
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