May 2007 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

UTF-8
by Dorian Meid 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

Gentlemen, I have a problem using UTF-8 with Koha. If I import MARC-Data via z3950 special characters are treated differently ÄÜÖäüö works at some pages but not in all. ß dosn't work at any page. This is the ü I get from z3950 and this is the ü which is generated when I type it. These are two different characters. I'm using Koha 2.2.8, MySQL5 and Apache 1.3 on Mac OSX 10.4 with Firefox. I've read the notes on the Wiki and my server, Database and the tables are set to UTF-8. I also set the templates encoding variable and added the encoding to httpd.conf The z3950 server sends data UTF-8 encoded Did I miss something? Dorian Meid

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Code Cleaning : Authorities.
by Henri-Damien LAURENT 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Those first two are the main reason I am writing. Does anyone still use thesaurus.pl ? Considering that now frameworks allow to link Authorities with one another, I think we should drop linker down. One problem is : All linking and hierarchy code is UNIMARC and hardcoded. I would like to allow more versatility on this. But this would require those new system preferences : relation type subfield (UNIMARC 2) relation authnumber subfield (UNIMARC 3) relation authtype subfield (we should agree on using authtypes or authtypecode as value in those subfields) (UNIMARC 5) relation tag (UNIMARC 550) child flag (UNIMARC f) mother flag (UNIMARC "g") Plus would require some little modifications of auth_finder to enable relation Choice. Maybe it could interesting to enable multiple authority link for a field. This would only require to manage a list of authorities to search in. We reviewed the AuthoritiesMARC code with Paul. And thought that unification between Authorities.pm and Biblio.pm was not a worth the work. a) Authorities search is much different from biblio search. b) inner tables differs so that it would oblige us to make heavier functions. So Authorities Will stay as such. While Code cleaning it, some questions remains. GetSummary as well as Buildhererarchies is still quite customer dependant and used for display. But it Hardcodes some HTML preprinting. So that when people want This or that display, one has to modify a C4/AuthoritiesMARC. For instance : One wants that term list are displayed : /Heading/ BT /Broader Term/ NT /Narrower Term/ UF /Used For/ /Comments./ Another wants that term list are displayed : /Heading/ TG /Broader Term/ TS /Narrower Term/ EP /Used For/ Comments : /Comments/. Another wants only Heading$a -- Heading$b -- Heading$z And we have to make little changes to the code and then upgrading process is harder. Solution ? A) Using xslt ? B) using HTML::Template to "simulate xslt" Then ppl would only have to modify template for summary processing "mini" template on each record. C) keeping this as such. This would also be helpful in getting information for search resultlists in biblios more user adapted. Comments welcome. -- Henri-Damien LAURENT

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copyright holder
by Paul POULAIN 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Hi (again...) I realise that, for instance, the Koha copyright is given to katipo (and it's written in almost every script). Knowing that katipo has resigned from it's Koha engagment by selling it to libLime, I think we can put that point on an agenda to decide what to do with the copyright. Assign it to libLime ? to the french NPO that should rise (very) soon ? to someone/something else ? we don't care, stay with katipo ? -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org) Tel : 04 91 31 45 19

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zebra for multi-marc
by long_sam.tw 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

hi,programmers zebra support multi-marc ? i run koha for mysql can support coexistent marcs (marc21 & unimarc). marc21 http://lit145.lacc.fju.edu.tw/cgi-bin/koha/opac-MARCdetail.pl?bib=15 unimarc http://lit145.lacc.fju.edu.tw/cgi-bin/koha/opac-MARCdetail.pl?bib=17 laxendion ___________________________________________________ 您的生活即時通－溝通、娛樂、生活、工作一次搞定！ http://messenger.yahoo.com.tw/

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Output.pm guesscharset, etc.
by Joshua M. Ferraro 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Hi gang, I just spent a few minutes troubleshooting some encoding issues in one of my Koha installs and noticed we're still using the guessencoding and guesstype routines in Output.pm in both rel_2_2 and HEAD. I'd suggest we switch to using the encoding listed in the systempreference or else, for HEAD, just hardcode as UTF-8. I'm guessing hardcoding would be the most efficient for HEAD since 3.0 is going to be all UNICODE anyway. Any thoughts? Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf(a)liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS

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Re: Koha-devel Digest, Vol 18, Issue 7
by Pranava Swaroop 24 May '07

24 May '07

Heya all, I would like to and would like to discuss about the planning and the course work of the CDS/ISIS transport tool. I would be grateful if you kindly consider me to be a part. Regards Pranava Swaroop (narutosan) On 5/24/07, koha-devel-request(a)nongnu.org <koha-devel-request(a)nongnu.org> wrote: > > Send Koha-devel mailing list submissions to > koha-devel(a)nongnu.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > koha-devel-request(a)nongnu.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > koha-devel-owner(a)nongnu.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Koha-devel digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Koha Developers' IRC Meeting (Joshua M. Ferraro) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 07:32:07 -0500 (CDT) > From: "Joshua M. Ferraro" <jmf(a)liblime.com> > Subject: [Koha-devel] Koha Developers' IRC Meeting > To: koha-devel <koha-devel(a)nongnu.org> > Message-ID: > <25744754.33761180009927837.JavaMail.root(a)mail.liblime.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Hey gang, > > Well our community has grown quite a bit this year, with lots more > libraries using Koha and contributing additional features. As we > grow, communication becomes even more critical. Paul, HDL, Chris and > think it's time for a group Developers' meeting on IRC. The main > topics will likely be: > > 1. General developer news > 2. Koha 3.0 -- what's left to do before we release? > 3. Koha 2.2 -- bugfixes vs. new features > 4. OpenCataloger -- a new MARC editor developed by toins and paul > > So, if you'd like to attend such a meeting please send me an email > off-list with the best day/time in a typical week. I'll compile the > answers and propose some dates. > > Cheers, > > -- > Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE > President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support > LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS > jmf(a)liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel(a)nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > > > End of Koha-devel Digest, Vol 18, Issue 7 > ***************************************** >

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Koha Developers' IRC Meeting
by Joshua M. Ferraro 24 May '07

24 May '07

Hey gang, Well our community has grown quite a bit this year, with lots more libraries using Koha and contributing additional features. As we grow, communication becomes even more critical. Paul, HDL, Chris and think it's time for a group Developers' meeting on IRC. The main topics will likely be: 1. General developer news 2. Koha 3.0 -- what's left to do before we release? 3. Koha 2.2 -- bugfixes vs. new features 4. OpenCataloger -- a new MARC editor developed by toins and paul So, if you'd like to attend such a meeting please send me an email off-list with the best day/time in a typical week. I'll compile the answers and propose some dates. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf(a)liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS

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MDID blogging
by Paul_Shannon 15 May '07

15 May '07

I have started a development blog for our library and was wondering if there is an attempt to track other blogs that are talking about using / implementing MDID? Our blog is at http://ssac.carleton.ca/dev/. The MDID stuff will all be in http://ssac.carleton.ca/dev/index.php/category/projects/mdid/ and the feed for that will be http://ssac.carleton.ca/dev/index.php/category/projects/mdid/feed I have set up the kind of thing I'm thinking about here: http://ssac.carleton.ca/koha for Koha, and was thinking we could do the same for MDID. Or, it might be as simple as having a list of blogs that talk about MDID. Perhaps here: http://mdid.org/mdidwiki/index.php?title=Relevant_Links ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Paul Shannon; BA, MLIS Assistant Coordinator, Cataloguing/Systems School for Studies in Art and Culture Carleton University 450 St. Patrick's Bldg. 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6 Tel: (613) 520-2600 x2347 Fax: (613) 520-3575 Email: paul_shannon(a)carleton.ca

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Panjabi Language Setup
by Ramandeep Singh 15 May '07

15 May '07

I'd like to work on translating OPAC and Intranet into Panjabi. Can you point me in the right direction. Thanks, Raman -- Ramandeep Singh RamanTX(a)gMail.com

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Koha User Group Meeting at ALA & Interest Survey
by Cindy Murdock 14 May '07

14 May '07

Greetings all, I apologize for the cross-postings, but I was asked to pass this along. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cindy Murdock Network Administrator Meadville Public Library | CCFLS http://meadvillelibrary.org | http://ccfls.org To all those using Koha or interested in using it: The Crawford County Federated Library System is hosting an Organizational Meeting of a Koha User Group during ALA this June. The meeting will be held 1:00 PM, June 24, 2007, Best Western Georgetown Hotel, 1121 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington D.C. (Located two blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro Station). The press release, with all of the information, and user interest survey are located at: http://meadvillelibrary.org/director/koha-user-group.html If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. John Brice System Administrator Crawford County Federated Library System 848 North Main Street Meadville PA 16335 jbrice(a)ccfls.org 814-336-1773

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