[Koha-bugs] [Bug 19506] New: Staged Marc Import should warn if the selected encoding does not match MARC 21 leader
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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=19506
Bug ID: 19506
Summary: Staged Marc Import should warn if the selected
encoding does not match MARC 21 leader
Change sponsored?: ---
Product: Koha
Version: master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P5 - low
Component: MARC Bibliographic record staging/import
Assignee: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
Reporter: barton at bywatersolutions.com
QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org
Mis-matches between character encodings will cause diacritics be incorrectly
imported into Koha. If the imported marc record is MARC8 encoded and imported
as UTF-8, diacritics will be converted to the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER '�'. A
UTF-8 encoded file imported as MARC8 will try to render the multi-byte UTF-8
characters as MARC8, resulting in garbage text.
MARC21 stores its encoding in leader position 09 - Character coding scheme
(http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bdleader.html). The accepted encodings
are '#' for MARC8 and 'a' for UTF-8 (although Koha exports ' ' for MARC8).
Koha should check the leader for MARC21 records and warn if the selected
encoding does not match the encoding of the marc record, giving the user the
opportunity to change the encoding or download fresh records with the correct
encoding.
[I couldn't tell if this was an issue for UNIMARC]
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