https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22572 Bug ID: 22572 Summary: Garbled content of MARC control fields in MARC view Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: 18.11 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 - low Component: OPAC Assignee: oleonard@myacpl.org Reporter: mik@adminkuhn.ch QA Contact: testopia@bugs.koha-community.org Target Milestone: --- MARC control fields consist of a fix number of positions that can contain blanks. The "MARC view" in the Koha staff client and the Koha OPAC garbles the content of such fields when the field contains more than one consecutive blank - in this case more than one consecutive blank is automatically collapsed down by the webbrowser to just one. Additionally blanks may be trimmed at the end of the content of a field. For example MARC 008 does and must consist of exactly 40 positions, thus a line like the following (as shown via webbrowser in the MARC view) is always wrong: 800422s1978 sz a 1 ger In fact the correct content of MARC 008 would look like the following 800422s1978 sz a 1 ger Or better visible, when using # instead of blanks: 800422s1978####sz########a#####1###ger## Seemingly, this applies to all MARC control fields: 006 (fix length 18 positions), 007 (variable length of up to 23 positions), 008 (fix length of 40 positions). In the database the content of these fields is correct. Maybe before showing the blank character in the "MARC view" it should be coded as HTML entity so the webbrowser doesn't collapse it. Also it may be a good idea to show the beginning and the end of such fields because otherwise (like in the above example) it is not visible that the field does contain two positions with blanks at the end. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.