On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Marijana Glavica <mglavica@ffzg.hr> wrote:

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 09:55:05AM +0100, Katrin Fischer wrote:

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I read in the release notes, that Koha Supports SIP2:

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To retrieve and interact with Circulation and Patron data, Koha 3 includes support for 3M's Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP2), using the OpenNCIP libraries (http://openncip.org).

Is there some documentation besides http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:sip2?

I found this: http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2362

and it was actually helpful :) basically, all you have to do is edit SIPconfig.xml and run SIP server with perl -IC4/SIP -MILS C4/SIP/SIPServer.pm C4/SIP/SIPconfig.xml

Until now we tested SIP2 with emulator and the real self-check station (3M), and it works fine, except that we still have problems with Croatian diacritics.

Yes, the problem here is that the 3M specs for SIP do not accommodate UTF-8. The best we can do is represent the characters in an encoding that doesn't break the transport layer (e.g., telnet). Koha could allow for a non-spec UTF-8 mode, but without knowing how many terminal devices would be able to use it, it would be of questionable value. I would be interested to talk to a 3M representative for Europe (or other areas) to know how they have implemented accommodations for advanced diacriticals and other non-ASCII characters. --Joe

hi all, i am newbie to the koha mailing list.infact we too in our organisation are intrested in implementing RFID with KOHA .i there anybody who have interfaced or tested a rfid reader with KOHA other than the self issue machine. regards, vimal On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:58 AM, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:

"Joe Atzberger" <ohiocore@gmail.com> wrote:

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I would be interested to talk to a 3M representative for Europe (or other areas) to know how they have implemented accommodations for advanced diacriticals and other non-ASCII characters.

I don't know anyone at 3M but I have contacts at another self-issue SIP machine maker. I'll ask them how they've handled this and report back. Thanks for the suggestion. -- 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 _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

hi ray, thanks for the information.iam using dedian based system .can you give me details of the RFID reader and the interface that you are using with KOHA.let me test the same on my installation too.we have an serial (RS232) RFID reader here .is there any way that i can interface the same with KOHA. regards, vimal On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:46 PM, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:

"vimal laxman" <vimallaxman@gmail.com> wrote:

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i am newbie to the koha mailing list.infact we too in our organisation are intrested in implementing RFID with KOHA .i there

anybody

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who have interfaced or tested a rfid reader with KOHA other than the self issue machine.

I have two Koha installations using USB RFID readers - staff terminals are Unix-like systems not Windows, though. The software is not generally useful yet - too many rough edges - but I'm willing to clean it up for release if there's enough interest.

Hope that helps, -- 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