I missed cc'g it to the lists. hari. ====== "Steven F. Baljkas" <baljkas@mts.net> date Mar 21, 2007 3:01 PM subject Re: [Koha] bulkmarcimport and unicode data mailed-by gmail.com Steven, Thanks for your reply.
Wasn't there something in the past few months about an incompatibility in bulkmarcimport.pl with certain (?) parts of unicode?
I did search the archives. Could not find anything relevant.
Would it be possible for you to do a global search and replace for those 3 problem characters (with whatever tools you have on hand) and recode them into MARC8? That might be a work-around for now.
From what I understand, MARC8 does not support Tamil.
Right now, the solution I have in mind (as a work around) is: 1. replace each of the 3 problem chars with a control char 2. mysqldump the koha database 3. replace the control char with the corresponding problem char 4. restore into mysql Is there a better work around ? Unless someone is already at it, I would like to look at the incompatibility issue for unicode in bulkmarcimport. Would you know whats the problem ? Any pointers would be useful. Thanks, hari.