Koha and display of diacritics/non-Roman alphabets/characters
I am brand new to Koha, but having a good time learning about it. I have encountered a stumper, however. Can someone explain how to set up the system to properly display diacritics and non-Roman characters? For example, I have a book about the Soviet Union that is written in French, and it is not rendering either the French or the Russian diacritics. I also have materials in Asian languages such as Lao and Thai in the catalog. Thanks for any tips. Bruce Willms East Side Freedom Library St. Paul, Minnesota
Bruce, There are multiple possible problems : 1. The data itself 2. Database configuration 3. Apache configuration Take a look at this page, it contains the settings you should look at : https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Encoding_and_Character_Sets_in_Koha Eric On 2016-06-02 11:43, Bruce Willms wrote:
I am brand new to Koha, but having a good time learning about it. I have encountered a stumper, however. Can someone explain how to set up the system to properly display diacritics and non-Roman characters? For example, I have a book about the Soviet Union that is written in French, and it is not rendering either the French or the Russian diacritics. I also have materials in Asian languages such as Lao and Thai in the catalog.
Thanks for any tips.
Bruce Willms
East Side Freedom Library
St. Paul, Minnesota
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Can someone explain how to set up the system to properly display diacritics and non-Roman characters?
Are you creating these records yourself, or are you importing them? I find that non-Roman characters will display incorrectly if you choose the wrong character encoding during the "Stage MARC records for import" process. For instance, if you're importing a MARC file which is encoded as MARC 8 but you keep the default UTF-8 setting. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
Hi Owen, I will have to check the set up. The records are imported from OCLC. Bruce -----Original Message----- From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Owen Leonard Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 11:16 AM To: koha <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha and display of diacritics/non-Roman alphabets/characters
Can someone explain how to set up the system to properly display diacritics and non-Roman characters?
Are you creating these records yourself, or are you importing them? I find that non-Roman characters will display incorrectly if you choose the wrong character encoding during the "Stage MARC records for import" process. For instance, if you're importing a MARC file which is encoded as MARC 8 but you keep the default UTF-8 setting. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Yes, very important. When you export from Connexion, export in utf-8 (which Koha defaults to of course) instead of Marc-8. I can attest from experience that this is true! You can change the export encoding in "options" if you use the client. Hope this is helpful, Jesse On 02-Jun-16 12:53 PM, Bruce Willms wrote:
Hi Owen,
I will have to check the set up. The records are imported from OCLC.
Bruce
-----Original Message----- From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Owen Leonard Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 11:16 AM To: koha <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha and display of diacritics/non-Roman alphabets/characters
Can someone explain how to set up the system to properly display diacritics and non-Roman characters? Are you creating these records yourself, or are you importing them? I find that non-Roman characters will display incorrectly if you choose the wrong character encoding during the "Stage MARC records for import" process. For instance, if you're importing a MARC file which is encoded as MARC 8 but you keep the default UTF-8 setting.
-- Owen
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Jesse, Thanks for the info. I do use the client, so I can correct that easily. Another thought: Can I re-export those few records from OCLC after I change to utf-8 and re-import them into Koha to correct the diacritics? I'm guessing that would work, but I'm still very new to Koha. Many thanks, Bruce -----Original Message----- From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Jesse A Lambertson Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 12:35 PM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha and display of diacritics/non-Roman alphabets/characters Yes, very important. When you export from Connexion, export in utf-8 (which Koha defaults to of course) instead of Marc-8. I can attest from experience that this is true! You can change the export encoding in "options" if you use the client. Hope this is helpful, Jesse On 02-Jun-16 12:53 PM, Bruce Willms wrote:
Hi Owen,
I will have to check the set up. The records are imported from OCLC.
Bruce
-----Original Message----- From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Owen Leonard Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 11:16 AM To: koha <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha and display of diacritics/non-Roman alphabets/characters
Can someone explain how to set up the system to properly display diacritics and non-Roman characters? Are you creating these records yourself, or are you importing them? I find that non-Roman characters will display incorrectly if you choose the wrong character encoding during the "Stage MARC records for import" process. For instance, if you're importing a MARC file which is encoded as MARC 8 but you keep the default UTF-8 setting.
-- Owen
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Bruce, Assuming your matching rules are set (by isbn or whatever), I would think you should be able to reimport those newly exported utf-8 records to overlay the old faulty records. My particular use of koha is different because many many of the items in my collection do not contain any ISBN. You might also reverse an import from records management if the affected records were imported at the same time. I hope this helps, Cheers Jesse On 02-Jun-16 4:01 PM, Bruce Willms wrote:
Jesse,
Thanks for the info. I do use the client, so I can correct that easily. Another thought: Can I re-export those few records from OCLC after I change to utf-8 and re-import them into Koha to correct the diacritics? I'm guessing that would work, but I'm still very new to Koha.
Many thanks, Bruce
-----Original Message----- From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Jesse A Lambertson Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 12:35 PM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha and display of diacritics/non-Roman alphabets/characters
Yes, very important. When you export from Connexion, export in utf-8 (which Koha defaults to of course) instead of Marc-8.
I can attest from experience that this is true!
You can change the export encoding in "options" if you use the client.
Hope this is helpful,
Jesse
On 02-Jun-16 12:53 PM, Bruce Willms wrote:
Hi Owen,
I will have to check the set up. The records are imported from OCLC.
Bruce
-----Original Message----- From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Owen Leonard Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 11:16 AM To: koha <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha and display of diacritics/non-Roman alphabets/characters
Can someone explain how to set up the system to properly display diacritics and non-Roman characters? Are you creating these records yourself, or are you importing them? I find that non-Roman characters will display incorrectly if you choose the wrong character encoding during the "Stage MARC records for import" process. For instance, if you're importing a MARC file which is encoded as MARC 8 but you keep the default UTF-8 setting.
-- Owen
-- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
_______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Jesse A Lambertson Librarian Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center Ph: (202)-677-3967 x104 jlambertson@sqcc.org عالم الانجازات ينحاز دوماً مع المتفائلين
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-- Jesse A Lambertson Librarian Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center Ph: (202)-677-3967 x104 jlambertson@sqcc.org عالم الانجازات ينحاز دوماً مع المتفائلين
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