Character encodings for special characters sent through DataCite API

PID Developers
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I am trying to figure out the best way to encode special characters like copyright ©, registered trademark Ⓡ, and degree symbol ° when pushing metadata to DataCite from our system via the MDS or REST API. I believe our system is storing them as HTML encodings (e.g., &code;). But for some reason that doesn’t make it to DataCite properly. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Madison

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Hi @mlangseth - I think if you use HTML encodings that should still be stored by DataCite. Do you have example metadata you could share? You can also email us at support@datacite.org with an attachment (either XML or the JSON payload you’re sending to the REST API).