https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=30358 David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |dcook@prosentient.com.au --- Comment #10 from David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> --- (In reply to Aleisha Amohia from comment #4)
text area fields in MARC records are not designed to carry formatting, therefore it is implied that the data would be saved as a plain text string with no added formatting.
As far as I know, there is no prohibition against using carriage returns and line feeds in MARC records. The MARCXML schema seems to indicate that all whitespace is allowed: https://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/schema/MARC21slim.xsd. That said, I haven't ever seen an example that includes them either.
For users who follow these cataloguing standards, there should be a setting to ask Koha to strip these.
Planning to amend StripWhitespaceChars to also strip inner line breaks and carriage returns.
It would probably be a good idea to indicate that it's data fields and not the leader and control fields that are affected. -- I'd also suggest adding an additional option for inner newlines. While I can see the utility of trimming whitespace off the beginning and end, I imagine that many librarians would be frustrated by inner whitespace being trimmed (at least if there wasn't a clear warning about it). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.