[Koha-devel] RFC on ISBN sanitisations, was: [Koha-patches] [PATCH] Bugfix ShelfBrowser using unsanitized ISBNs. Owen reported the

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:32 PM, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:
> Joe Atzberger <joe.atzberger at liblime.com> wrote: [...]
>  > +++ b/opac/opac-detail.pl
>  [...]
>  > +sub isbn_cleanup ($) {
[snip]
>  Should this be moved into C4 somewhere, expanded to strip non-[0-9X]s
>  and convert UPC barcodes into ISBNs (for barcode wedge users during
>  cataloguing) before checking, and used more widely?

Yes, I think this should be moved to C4.  I've been noodling around
with the notion of creating a C4::Normalize or the like to centralize
these kinds of normalizations (as ISSNs, LC card numbers, OCLC
numbers, etc. could benefit from this as well), but haven't done
anything yet.

Regards,

Galen
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