Thanks for your interest in this error. Turkish s with cedilla (ş) which gives the sound of sh is typed as s, in the LC catalog. Could this be the problem then? I will try if Koha lets editing imported records before they are saved, and if it helps to change s, to s with cedilla, that is ş. Regards Selma Aslan Kutuphane ve Dokumantasyon Muduru TOBB Ekonomi ve Teknoloji Üniversitesi Sogutozu Caddesi No.43 06560 Ankara Tel. 0 312 2924030 Faks. 0 312 2924095 http://www.kutuphane.etu.edu.tr -----Original Message----- From: MJ Ray [mailto:mjr@phonecoop.coop] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:00 PM To: selma@etu.edu.tr; koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Error faced on Koha v.3 demo for academic libraries "selma aslan" <selma@etu.edu.tr> wrote:

While trying cataloging on demo for academic libraries, when I attempted to save a Turkish book (ISBN: 9753253710) imported from Library of Congress the following prompt appeared:

The following fatal error has occurred:

Wide character in null operation at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/MARC/Charset/Table.pm line 96. [...] Could someone please explain the reason for this error, if there is a bug or what?

The reason is probably the strange characters in fields such as Personal name (100$a) which aren't encoded in a way that my Koha recognises. There is probably a bug, but I think it's at the Library of Congress. I'm probably wrong, but I tried: yaz-client z3950.loc.gov:7090 base voyager marccharset marc-8 displaycharset utf-8 f 9753253710 s 1 and the display was mangled. Anyone more MARCful able to confirm or deny this, please? How should we handle it? Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 !DSPAM:344,48a154da7162489825543!

Hi This is to report that when I changed s, to s with cedilla the system accepted the record, and thus the problem was solved. Thanks to Chris Nighswonger whose comments were helpful to identify the problem. Kind regards Selma Aslan Kutuphane ve Dokumantasyon Muduru TOBB Ekonomi ve Teknoloji Üniversitesi Sogutozu Caddesi No.43 06560 Ankara Tel. 0 312 2924030 Faks. 0 312 2924095 http://www.kutuphane.etu.edu.tr -----Original Message----- From: Chris Nighswonger [mailto:chris.nighswonger@liblime.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 2:59 PM To: selma aslan Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Error faced on Koha v.3 demo for academic libraries 2008/8/12 selma aslan <selma@etu.edu.tr>:

Hi

While trying cataloging on demo for academic libraries, when I attempted to save a Turkish book (ISBN: 9753253710) imported from Library of Congress the following prompt appeared:

The following fatal error has occurred:

Wide character in null operation at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/MARC/Charset/Table.pm line 96.

Apache

Server version: Apache/2.2.3 Server built: Jan 27 2008 18:09:58

Koha

3.00.00.099

Here is the problem. You need to upgrade to Koha 3.0 Stable as the worst part of the wide-char problems has been fixed. Kind Regards, -- Chris Nighswonger LibLime www.liblime.com chris.nighswonger@liblime.com !DSPAM:344,48a17ec57162361722023!