Jason Ronallo wrote:
I'd wait to see what other folks say first, but here's what I'd try. I can't speak for Canada but the records coming from LC should all be UTF-8 encoded (Leader byte 9 is set to 'a'). Take a look at this page: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=encodingscratchpad We preprocess our MARC records (using a Java program I wrote) to make sure we have some details correct (ISBN, DDC that matches the one on our book,...). This also handles the conversion from MARC-8 to UTF-8.
Our main problem with display of non-ASCII characters is finding fonts that actually contain the characters. We have some Arabic characters in records (not too difficult) and some records with odd accented characters from Nigerian languages (particularly Yoruba and Hausa). For example, this following letter should be a k with a hook at the top: ƙ Lots of good advice on that Koha wiki page, thanks. Kevin -- Kevin O'Rourke ICT Coordinator, National Teachers' Institute, Kaduna, Nigeria 062 316972