[Koha-devel] EAN to ISBN

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-01-24 02:27:21 +0000 Daniel Holth <dholth at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> This is the EAN for a paperback edition of Sourcerer (a novel of
> Discworld) by Terry Pratchett.  It's encoded in a barcode.  The ISBN 
> is
> 0-06-102067-2 - embedded in the EAN, except the EAN has its own
> checksum.

Uniform Product Code and its international relation EAN are the sort 
of barcode found on many products. They are 8 or 13 digit codes which 
include subcodes for different countries and a check digit. Books are 
from the country "ISBN" and periodicals from "ISSN" with a different 
check digit than the one for ISBNs.

I think I heard that this will change soon, as ISBNs get longer. Is 
that correct?

Business::ISBN. Do we need to add yet another module? Can we strip the 
country code and add the correct check digit?

Thank you for your work. I am keen to examine this change. Where can I 
download a patch file from?

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