On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Marijana Glavica <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mglavica@ffzg.hr">mglavica@ffzg.hr</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 09:55:05AM +0100, Katrin Fischer wrote:<br>
> I read in the release notes, that Koha Supports SIP2:<br>
><br>
> >To retrieve and interact with Circulation and Patron data, Koha 3 includes<br>
> >support for 3M's Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP2), using the OpenNCIP<br>
> >libraries (<a href="http://openncip.org" target="_blank">http://openncip.org</a>).<br>
><br>
> Is there some documentation besides<br>
> <a href="http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:sip2" target="_blank">http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:sip2</a>?<br>
<br>
</div>I found this:<br>
<a href="http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2362" target="_blank">http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2362</a><br>
<br>
and it was actually helpful :)<br>
basically, all you have to do is edit SIPconfig.xml and run SIP server with<br>
perl -IC4/SIP -MILS C4/SIP/SIPServer.pm C4/SIP/SIPconfig.xml<br>
<br>
Until now we tested SIP2 with emulator and the real self-check station<br>
(3M), and it works fine, except that we still have problems with<br>
Croatian diacritics.</blockquote><div><br>Yes, the problem here is that the 3M specs for SIP do not accommodate UTF-8. The best we can do is represent the characters in an encoding that doesn't break the transport layer (e.g., telnet). <br>
<br>Koha could allow for a non-spec UTF-8 mode, but without knowing how many terminal devices would be able to use it, it would be of questionable value.<br><br>I would be interested to talk to a 3M representative for Europe (or other areas) to know how they have implemented accommodations for advanced diacriticals and other non-ASCII characters.<br>
<br>--Joe<br></div></div>