[Koha-devel] UTF-8

[Michel Virard]

Hello,

This thread stopped more than 6 months ago, yet I do not know what happened
next. I am very interested to a workable solution to this problem: half of
our books are in French and we have exactly the same problem: z39.50 records
fetched from (bilingual) canadian libraries do not get properly in our ISO
koha. All accented letters are wrongly interpreted when they show up in our
MARC21 records.

I am not even sure the 3 Canadian libraries use UTF8 although it looks like
it. A reliable source of UTF8 encoding would clear the question.

Michel Virard
Montreal




Dorian Meid wrote:
> 
> Thanks for validating this!
> 
> Am 13.03.2007 um 12:14 schrieb Thomas Dukleth:
> ...
>> I have tested and found that the problem is with GBV at least for this
>> record.  I had never tested their records retuned in UTF-8 from  
>> port 20012
>> previously.
> ...
>> Please report this problem to GBV if you have any good contacts there.
> 
> Yes, I'll do.
> 
> In my current project, I think I'll write my own MARC-client and then  
> transcode the records before importing them.
> We mainly have german books, but also a few russian, chinese,  
> japanese and greek.
> The current database is a flatfile where foreign books aren't  
> included at all.
> 
> Again, can anybody name me a reliable UTF-8 data source?
> I just want to test wether my UTF setup is working throughout the  
> system.
> 
> 
> Dorian Meid
> 
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