https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29333 Bug ID: 29333 Summary: Importing UNIMARC authorities in MARCXML UTF-8 breaks the encoding Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: master Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 - low Component: MARC Authority data support Assignee: koha-bugs@lists.koha-community.org Reporter: julian.maurice@biblibre.com QA Contact: testopia@bugs.koha-community.org Related to bug 17754 MARC::Record and MARC::File::* modules sometimes use the position 09 of the leader to detect encoding. A blank character means 'MARC-8' while an 'a' means 'UTF-8'. In a UNIMARC authority this position is used to store the authority type (see https://www.transition-bibliographique.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/AIntroL... [FR]). In this case, 'a' means 'Personal Name'. The result is that the import will succeed for a Personal Name authority, but it will fail for all other authority types. Steps to reproduce: 0. Be sure to have a Koha UNIMARC instance. 1. Download the MARCXML for "Honoré de Balzac" curl -o balzac.marcxml https://www.idref.fr/02670305X.xml 2. Verify that it's encoded in UTF-8 file balzac.marcxml (should output "balzac.marcxml: XML 1.0 document, UTF-8 Unicode text") 3. Go to Tools » Stage MARC for import and import balzac.marcxml with the following settings: Record type: Authority Character encoding: UTF-8 Format: MARCXML Do not touch the other settings 4. Once imported, go to the staged MARC management tool and find your batch. Click on the authority title "Balzac Honoré de 1799-1850" to show the MARC inside a modal window. There should be no encoding issue. 5. Write down the imported record id (the number in column '#') and go to the MARC authority editor. Replace all URL parameters by 'breedingid=THE_ID_YOU_WROTE_DOWN' The URL should look like this: /cgi-bin/koha/authorities/authorities.pl?breedingid=198 You should see no encoding issues. Do not save the record. 6. Import the batch into the catalog. Verify that the authority record has no encoding issue. 7. Now download the MARCXML for "Athènes (Grèce)" curl -o athènes.marcxml https://www.idref.fr/027290530.xml 8. Repeat steps 2 to 6 using athènes.marcxml file. At steps 4 and 5 you should see encoding issues and that the position 9 of the leader was rewritten from 'c' to 'a'. Strangely, importing this batch fix the encoding issue, but we still lose the information in position 09 of the leader -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.