I changed my mind and included both libraries (JAI and Bouncy Castle) in Ubooquity. :)

I have an ipad, I'll try to reproduce the problem on my side. Thanks for the details.

Hi Matthieu,

Seems like a character encoding problem.

Ubooquity uses UTF-8 everywhere (except on the logs page, see below), so it supports kind of characters, including accents, kanjis, etc. I have not been able to reproduce the problem. On my side (Windows 7 + Firefox) everything works fine with accents in the user name.

The only explanation I can think of for now is if the browser does not respect the declared encoding (either when creating the user or when writing the session cookie) or if the configuration file has been edited with an external tool.

Could you let me know which browser you use, and on which operating system ?
Also if you have a text editor which lets you choose the display encoding, could you open the settings file ("preferences.xml") and check that you correctly see the accent when UTF-8 is selected ?


As for the logs, the "Eléonore" you see is the result of an UTF-8 file displayed whith the IEC 8859-1 encoding (probably the default of your browser). That because the logs page does not specify its encoding in the HTML head section of the page.
It's a bug, but which only affects display, not a symptom which could explain your problem (the log file itself, opened whith an editor in UTF-8 mode will display the correct "é" character).

Hi Rajendra,

I suppose Ubooquity could work properly in your context. The main problems you could face would depend on the number of users.
Ubooquity was designed as a "home" server, I did not test it with a high number of simultaneous connections (do you have an idea of the number of simultaneous users you would have ?).
Furthermore, this is not a professional application. So there is no guarantee or support. Just me answering questions and working on the code whenever I have time to do so. :)

I don't know either if you would want to limit access to the books using logins and passwords.
If so, and if you have a lot of students, user account creation might be a bit tedious as you would have to create all accounts yourself (there is no interface for a user to create his account himself).

Last warning: Ubooquity currently offers an online reader (inside the browser) only for comics (CBZ/CBR) and PDF files. I plan to try to add an epub reader at some point, but not before a few months, and I'm not sure sure to succeed (I can't make promises on bookmarks or annotations).

The best way to check if Ubooquity fills your needs is probably to set it up (on a desktop environment it's done in a matter of minutes) and do a few tests.
Let me know if you have other questions (and if you choose to use Ubooquity for your school).

Regards,
Tom

I'm glad it did as I had no idea of the cause. :)

Perhaps I'll add some code to automatically remove the trailing slash. Thanks for the feedback.

[Edit] Done in 1.7.0