Pasi -- I suggest we attempt to resolve the problem with the importer, and then reimport. Some other members on the list will be able to speak to your question better that I can, however. The data is represented in several places in the database, so it is not trivial to accomplish a mass-replace. And presumably you would want to import new data at some later point, regardless. --Joe Atzberger On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Pasi <pasi.korkalo@oululainen.com> wrote:
I've been trying to import some records to Koha 2.2.9 system (both with Koha's internal breeding.pl tool and bulkmarcimport.pl), but I can't seem to get all the UTF-8 characters to work right. While breeding.pl seems to break nearly all the special characters, bulkmarcimport.pl does a much better job. There are however some problematic characters with bulkmarcimport.pl also. For example a with umlauts (ä) works, but followed by n (än) it becomes a mess, very strange...
I've been thinking about doing a database-wide search-replace to fix the broken characters, but how should I proceed with that? Is it a very good idea in the first place or is there a better way to fix the characters?
Thanks! -Pasi-