[Koha-zebra] Re: Unimarc, marc21, Unicode, and MARC::File::XML

[Adam Dickmeiss]

Tümer Garip wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This problem if I understood it correctly has got nothing to do with
> mysql or perl it has to do with ZEBRA unless it is to do with UNIMARC
> which I am not familiar with.
> As you know (Paul) I have an utf-8 version working.
> 
> I had the same problem from records coming from zebra and found out that
> it is not doing what it is supposed to do unless you explicitly set it
> to utf-8. You have to explicitly put "encoding utf-8" in all your zebra
> config files especially the zebra.cfg and your .abs . Otherwise unlike
> the documentation saying that zebra character code is automatically set
> by the xml encoding it DOES NOT.
I can't reproduce this (bug). Care to share a a config+example that 
illustrates this (Inserts an XML record from Perl in UTF-8) ?

> Perl send xml to zebra with encoding utf-8 on the header and utf-8 data
> in it. Zebra saves all the data in utf-8 but returns an xml saying
> encoding iso8859-1 at the header and utf-8 characters in data. No module
> can correct this as it is stupid.
Just need to know when the stupidity starts:-)

/ Adam

> I corrected the problem by adding encoding:UTF-8 in zebra.cfg,
> record.abs, sort-string.chr
> 
> Hope it solves yours,
> 
> Tumer
> 
> 
> 
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