Feedback request: Orobanche picridis (35627)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #360518

Taxon:	Orobanchaceae: Orobanche picridis F.W. Schultz ("Oxtongue Broomrape")
Filed in taxon folder:	Orobanchaceae: Orobanche picridis F.W. Schultz ("Oxtongue Broomrape")
Collected by:	Georges Desplantes
Collection date:	28/7/1928
Locality:	France, C, Flavigny sur Ozerain
ex herb:	Georges Desplantes
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by xmhcman on 17^th March 2013.

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xmhcman wrote

Database refuses to believe that Flavigny sur Ozerain, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, is in France even when France is selected from 'other countries'!

[Tom Humphrey]

I'm puzzled, what was it reporting, because the French locality appears to have been added to the record correctly.

[Roger Horton]

Certainly a search for specimens from 'George Desplantes' and country 'France' returns (only) this specimen, but with nothing in the locality field.

[Tom Humphrey]

The missing place names were due to character-set conversion problems (specifically the 'ô' in Côte-d'Or).

I've still not properly resolved the issue, but at least the names display now.

Thank you for highlighting the problem.

[Roger Horton]

I should just type in foreign place-names and not cut-and-paste from Google!

[Tom Humphrey]

Not your fault

It's the region name that's causing problems not the local place name (which can contain whatever symbols you want).

The database unintentionally has a mixture of columns using different character encodings. The solution will be to reload the offending tables, something I'm not looking forward.

Character sets are too often problematic in ill-conceived databases. At a museum were I worked a few years ago I created chaos by adding lots of Slavic place names to their database (complete with all sorts of exotic glyphs) which displayed correctly. It was only after entering several hundred names that I realized that they broke the indexes - not only could the names not be found but nothing else sorted after my entries could be retrieved either.