Hi developers, just a thing I thought could be very interesting, please read this in a latin1 capable e-mail agent: Aparently marc8 records with latin1 extensions are being correctly stored in database, when marc8 is specified as source encoding, for z3950 records that come in that format. *** Well..., not so. *** Internet Explorer renders correctly the not so correct marc8 to utf8 transformation where chars from latin1 character repertoire are recognized in the transformation. What is really doing koha, when doing marc8 decoding/MARC21, is to store in database a sequence of: base character + unicode form of (tilde|cute|grave...etc) ...that is: a´, a`,n~, etc... ...with ` or ´ or etc... in UTF-8 (using 3 native bytes instead of 2 native bytes) Instead of: á, à, etc... (2 native bytes) Internet Explorer, not surprisingly for me, renders a´ as á, etc... but no other tools do it this way, for example firefox renders í as i with an upper to the dot acute. Ignacio Javier Gómez Rodríguez Analista - Programador Tfno: 902905590 - Fax: 981571425 ignacio.gomez@coremain.com www.coremain.com _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel