Dear Gary,
Opinions please. MARC records we plan to load into our Koha database are encoded in the MARC-8 format. This document tells us to use UTF-8 encoded records.
<http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?do=show&id=encodingscratchpad>http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?do=show&id=encodingscratchpad (nice work, Josh, but we have test loaded some records in MARC-8 that seem to work fine, but we respect your knowledge, so now we are questioning ourselves as we move closer to a production environment)
We have read many items on this issue. Any additional opinions on what is the correct thing to do will be appreciated. It is my intention to leave this question open-ended in hopes of getting several points of view from the Koha community. Thanks.
MARC-8 is not avaible as option to encode data into Koha db. In fact koha db engine is MySQL that dosen't understand really MARC-8. But it appears working because often (in the latin word) MARC-8 code is the same of UTF-8. Tecnicaly speaking you can setup Koha to use Latin1 encoding (ISO 8859-1). But I don't suggest you this option. My suggestion is to translate your data from MARC-8 to UTF-8. But remeber to do a correct setup [read all http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?do=show&id=encodingscratchpad] Cheers Zeno Tajoli Zeno Tajoli CILEA - Segrate (MI) tajoliAT_SPAM_no_prendiATcilea.it (Indirizzo mascherato anti-spam; sostituisci quanto tra AT con @)