[Koha-bugs] [Bug 3182] New: Non-ASCII framework codes fail to work in cataloguing

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http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3182

           Summary: Non-ASCII framework codes fail to work in cataloguing
           Product: Koha
           Version: rel_3_0
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P5
         Component: Cataloging
        AssignedTo: galen.charlton at liblime.com
        ReportedBy: hui_nan at mail.ru
   Estimated Hours: 0.0


The framework with non-ASCII code (say using some national language) can be
created, but when it is used to create new marc record Koha fails to save that
record with the message:

Tag "" is not a valid tag. at /home/www/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2656

The reason for such behaviour is that hidden input element of the web-form
named 'frameworkcode' returns encoded string like
'\xd0\x96\xd0\xa3\xd0\xa0\xd0\x9d' instead of true utf-8 characters.

There are two workarounds:

1. Use ASCII-only for any short-string identifiers in Koha, which is not good 
for users who don't speak english (or any other 'ASCII-language').

2. Patch form-retrieval code to implicitly decode such identifiers. For example
the code around the line 821 in /intranet/cgi-bin/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl
could be modified:

instead of
my $frameworkcode = $input->param('frameworkcode');

insert
my $frameworkcode = Encode::decode utf8=>$input->param('frameworkcode');

I believe that the latter modification should be done in some other files and
for some other params too.


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