[Koha-bugs] [Bug 34549] The cataloguing editor allows you to input invalid data

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=34549

--- Comment #17 from David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> ---
(In reply to Martin Renvoize from comment #15)
> Hmm,  whilst this certainly resolves the core issue.. I'd have loved to have
> seen some form of warning to the end user that their input data has been
> manipulated.
> 
> I'm not close enough to the differences between MARC-8 and UTF-8 encodings
> to know exactly what we're losing during the save.. the test case
> highlighted here is simple.. just dropping a hidden character.. no harm
> done.. however, might there be cases where the mis-encoded string getting
> stripped would result in worse data from the human perspective?  It would be
> good to somehow catch these sorts of misconfigurations and try to encourage
> end users to fix them.

Of course, the way I typically deal with these records is to erase the problem
characters. Otherwise there's not much that can be done. Where possible I
indicate which records were problems so that they could be fixed
up/re-imported.

I'll put some more thoughts on bug 35104...

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