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Re: Developer
by paul POULAIN 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

Ed Summers a écrit: >Salut Paul, > do u speak french ? >>In fact, Steve pointed me a solution with the official MARC::Record. >>Now, we don't need a patched version. >> >> >Wonderful. > >>VERY IMPORTANT thing. Can u tell us more ? >> >> >Sure, I've been working on MARC::Charset [1] which allows people to translate >character data encoded in MARC-8 [2] to Unicode (UTF8). As you may know already >the MARC-8 environment allowed libraries work with Roman, Greek, Cyrillic, >Hebrew and Asian characters when Unicode was just a glimmer in a young >programmers eye. The only bummer is that MARC-8 characters don't work in >HTML or XML very well. I've got the 8 bit translations working well, and am >working on getting the 32 bit encodings to work (the huge East Asian set). > >Queens Public Library contacted me because they had a slightly different >request. They were wondering if it would be possible to take a batch of records >containing transliterated Russian, and add 880 fields [3] that contain the >Cyrillic equivalent. It's still a work in progress, and it's only for Russian, >but it appears to be coming along. I used MARC::Charset as part of a web based >demo to show what the Cyrillic would look like in the new records. Most web >browsers can display UTF8 now without too much trouble. > alleluia ! great new. Is it planned to inclut this into MARC::Record ? as loading french unimarc record is a pain for extended characters at the moment. >>And, 1.3 needs heavily testing. should not be too far from good >>stability (2.0RC1). Still misses MARC searches, and MARC export. >> >> > >I'd like to take a stab at writing some automated tests, since it would be a >good place for me to start learning about how KOHA works. > yep. And it's something nobody cares until then (except for our benevolent dictator, which asked many times, but nobody obey :-) ) >[1] http://search.cpan.org/author/ESUMMERS/MARC-Charset-0.2/lib/MARC/Charset.pm >[2] http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/specifications/speccharintro.html >[3] http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdhold.html#mrcb880 > > -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIBGB libre http://fr.koha.org)

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[Bug 135] Leaving rental charge blank gives misleading error message
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=135 paul.poulain(a)free.fr changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- Additional Comments From paul.poulain(a)free.fr 2002-12-03 04:54 ------- fixed in cvs. Note : yes, checks are performed only on client side. I agree this is not very secure, but it's a rarely modified value and koha 2.0 will need : * IE5+ or Mozilla/Netscape 6+ * javascript enabled. Maybe the best solution would be to include in *.inc files a test for javascript activated and refuse acces if it's not. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.

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[Bug 133] Adding subfield clears subfield data being input
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133 ------- Additional Comments From paul.poulain(a)free.fr 2002-12-03 04:40 ------- *** Bug 134 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.

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[Bug 134] Cannot add MARC subfield
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134 paul.poulain(a)free.fr changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |DUPLICATE ------- Additional Comments From paul.poulain(a)free.fr 2002-12-03 04:40 ------- Please, Ambrose, confirm it's solved through but 133 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133 *** ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.

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[Bug 133] Adding subfield clears subfield data being input
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133 paul.poulain(a)free.fr changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- Additional Comments From paul.poulain(a)free.fr 2002-12-03 04:37 ------- The "More" link is disabled. You can add subfields one by one by using the empty line in the subfield list ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.

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[Bug 132] installer.pl does not initialize the "includes" directive
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132 paul.poulain(a)free.fr changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX ------- Additional Comments From paul.poulain(a)free.fr 2002-12-03 04:33 ------- this bug will disappear when script will be templated. Until then, add the following line to you koha.conf file : includes=<koha_root>/koha/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/default/en/includes ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.

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[Bug 131] Can't enter book (CD, video tape, magazine, etc.) with no ISBN
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=131 paul.poulain(a)free.fr changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- Additional Comments From paul.poulain(a)free.fr 2002-12-03 04:19 ------- fixed in cvs. Note you must change the parameter table : isbn is "mandatory" by default, and should be changed to "not mandatory". ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.

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Thoughts about Javascript in Koha 2.0
by Ambrose Li 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

Hi, On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 03:54:16PM -0000, bugzilla-daemon(a)wilbur.katipo.co.nz wrote: > > Note : yes, checks are performed only on client side. > I agree this is not very secure, but it's a rarely modified > value and koha 2.0 > will need : > * IE5+ or Mozilla/Netscape 6+ > * javascript enabled. Hmm, I don't know the rationale behind the change -- I suppose it is for ease of programming --, but I will be one who will be "voting against it" (if my vote counts). It is better (from an accessibility point of view) to remove the dependency on Javascript instead of to strengthen it. By removing I don't mean all checks must be done on server side; my ideal web app would use Javascript checks if Javascript is there, but fall back on a server-side check if there's no Javascript. We can code the checks in something other than perl & Javascript, and generate both the real Javascript and Perl code at "install time". IMHO, an open-source web app should take care to cater to text-browser users (e.g., they might be blind). I suppose it is fine to make the librarian module work only with IE5+/Mozilla (though I still would not like to see that happen); but I think the OPAC must not depend on Javascript. -- Ambrose Li <a.c.li(a)ieee.org> http://ada.dhs.org/~acli/cmcc/ http://www.cccgt.org/ DRM is theft - We are the stakeholders

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acquisitions in 1.3.2
by Ambrose Li [CCCGT] 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

Hi, are aquisitions-top.inc and aquisitions-bottom.inc still used? It is in the 1.3.2 tarball, but I suppose acquisitions-top.inc and acquisitions-bottom.inc should have replaced them. Somehow, the list of commonly-used system parameters (which was in the last RC) seem to have disappeared from the system parameters setting page. I now have to figure out how to reenable simple acquisitions... BTW, is the full acquisition supposed to be functional? I always only get a strangely formatted page with two search boxes; I thought that I saw this because my web server (Caudium) was not supported, but now that I tried to install it on Apache, I still am seeing what I saw. Best regards, -- Ambrose Li ``A good style should show no sign of effort; what is written should seem a happy accident.'' ~ Somerset Maugham

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[Bug 130] Branch data entry form has unlabelled check box
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130 paul.poulain(a)free.fr changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|tonnesen(a)cmsd.bc.ca |paul.poulain(a)free.fr ------- Additional Comments From paul.poulain(a)free.fr 2002-12-03 05:08 ------- for CHRIS : i don't understand well what the categorycode is done for and where he should be stored. David is the "templater" of this script, he will follow your answer. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.

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