[Koha-bugs] [Bug 11121] New: Patron Card Creator batch export cannot handle special characters (usually)

Wed Oct 23 11:43:09 CEST 2013

http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11121

            Bug ID: 11121
           Summary: Patron Card Creator batch export cannot handle special
                    characters (usually)
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           Product: Koha
           Version: 3.12
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: trivial
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Tools
          Assignee: gmcharlt at gmail.com
          Reporter: vincent_muyo at yahoo.com
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org

Exporting a batch with special characters ( e g é, å, ä, ö) for patron posts
<firstname> and <surname> will cause them to be corrupted in the exported pdf -
é becomes Ã©, å becomes Ä¥ and ö becomes Ã¶, for example. However, this doesn't
always happen - _usually_ the first page comes out correctly (but not with
things already incorrect). 

Everything (apache2, MySQL, linux locale) is set to UTF-8, and label creator
works flawlessly with these symbols. Going off an installation of the 3.12
liveDVD 3.12 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/kohalivedvd/) in Xubuntu. 

Guessing the exporter uses a different standard, e g ANSI, which corrupts the
text - but this is pure guesswork. :)

Extra information about the setup:

Template is for an A4 page, SI Centimeters, 29.7x21. Cards 7.7x4.8, Margins
2x2. 2 columns, 4 rows, gaps 0.5cm each.

Layout is layouted for front with guidebox on. It uses postscript points.
 Text fields Field 1 houses: the bug-related information <firstname> <surname>,
font Helvetica size 12, alignment center, X: 20 Y: 100. 
 Barcode number is printed, Code 39 (generated automatically in provided Katipo
style), X:20, Y: 40

Koha 3.12.05.000

OS version ('uname -a'):     Linux ubuntu 3.2.0-55-generic #85-Ubuntu SMP Wed
Oct 2 13:43:27 UTC 2013 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Perl interpreter:     /usr/bin/perl
Perl version:     5.014002
Perl @INC:     /usr/share/koha/lib
/etc/perl
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2
/usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2
/usr/lib/perl5
/usr/share/perl5
/usr/lib/perl/5.14
/usr/share/perl/5.14
/usr/local/lib/site_perl
.
MySQL version:     mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.32, for debian-linux-gnu (i686)
using readline 6.2
Apache version:     Server version: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
Zebra version:     Zebra 2.0.44 (C) 1994-2010, Index Data ApS Zebra is free
software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to
change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. SHA1 ID:
419ad759807269fdfa379799a051ed3a551c6541 Using ICU 

Running this in a virtual machine, VirtualBox.

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