[Koha-bugs] [Bug 30154] AuthorityControlledIndicators copies empty indicators as space making it hard to edit in cataloguing

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=30154

--- Comment #3 from Noémie Labine <noemie.labine at collecto.ca> ---
Thanks to both of you. It indeed seems to be a normal behaviour as the second
indicator is copied from the authority record.

However, I understand the second indicator is not 'supposed' to be empty, but
the library that submitted this problem to us seems to have quite a few Uniform
title authories created without a second indicator. I assume that it isn't the
only library where the Marc 21 standards are not fully respected or at least
that sometimes an indicator can be forgotten. Therefore, this behavior still
makes it hard to correct the indicator.

I know the 'right' way to correct the mistake would be to add the indicator in
the authority record before adding the 830 in the record... but I'm thinking
about situations where the person cataloguing wants to do it 'quickly' or for
any other reason they decide not to correct the autority record.

Plus, now that I understand where this comes from, I can reecreate in any other
field with the first or the second indicator. For exemple, in a 700 field with
a person's name without a first indicator. 

I would really understand if we decide to not fix this as it is not a 'real'
problem if Marc21 standards are respected, but I do think it would lack
consistency if we consider that we can very well create the authority without
completely respecting Marc21, since we can save it without putting an indicator
in the first place.

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