[Koha-devel] Re: Developer

[paul POULAIN]

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.
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>Wonderful.
>
>>VERY IMPORTANT thing. Can u tell us more ?
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>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.
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>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
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-- 
Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIBGB libre http://fr.koha.org)

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