We are having difficulty with Irish Gaelic - the accents are getting mangled in z39.50 downloads. Or in some cases it won't work at all because of the accents. Are there particular settings I should check? The same titles at the Library of Congress and the National Library of Ireland (both set to MARC 8) look strange on the screen. There are extra letters in front of the accented letters. I contacted a colleague at LC who said these extra letters do not display on their end. UTF-8 produces little question marks where the accents should be, and brings up an error message saying: utf 8 "\xD6" does not map to Unicode Which makes me wonder if some of this is due to a browser setting? (Google Chrome - UK English). We are running 3.2.6 Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) -- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 ext 36 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52)
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Elaine Bradtke <eb@efdss.org> wrote:
We are having difficulty with Irish Gaelic - the accents are getting mangled in z39.50 downloads. Or in some cases it won't work at all because of the accents. Are there particular settings I should check?
Have a look here: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Encoding_and_Character_Sets_in_Koha to verify that all of your encoding is setup properly on your Koha server. Kind Regards, Chris
We've checked the settings, and they are now correct according to the wiki. However, the Gaelic is still not downloading correctly. I've experimented with several settings in our targets, MARC8 seems the best but it's not perfect. I still get 'h' appearing before accented letters. Any other thoughts? Ealine On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Elaine Bradtke <eb@efdss.org> wrote:
We are having difficulty with Irish Gaelic - the accents are getting mangled in z39.50 downloads. Or in some cases it won't work at all because of the accents. Are there particular settings I should check?
Have a look here:
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Encoding_and_Character_Sets_in_Koha
to verify that all of your encoding is setup properly on your Koha server.
Kind Regards, Chris
-- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 ext 36 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52)
Hi Elaine, On Apr 18, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Elaine Bradtke wrote:
We've checked the settings, and they are now correct according to the wiki. However, the Gaelic is still not downloading correctly. I've experimented with several settings in our targets, MARC8 seems the best but it's not perfect. I still get 'h' appearing before accented letters. Any other thoughts?
Could you give us an example of a Z39.50 target and record that you're experiencing this problem with? Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Data Services Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source email: gmc@esilibrary.com direct: +1 352-215-7548 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/
We had a bit of gremlin trouble over the weekend. This included trouble with z39.50 searches returning no results, even for items that I knew were there. By the time I got around to looking at everything again, the problems had all resolved. Accents are appearing as they should, z39.50 searches are returning results. Phew. Thanks everyone for your help! Elaine On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc@esilibrary.com> wrote:
Hi Elaine,
On Apr 18, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Elaine Bradtke wrote:
We've checked the settings, and they are now correct according to the wiki. However, the Gaelic is still not downloading correctly. I've experimented with several settings in our targets, MARC8 seems the best but it's not perfect. I still get 'h' appearing before accented letters. Any other thoughts?
Could you give us an example of a Z39.50 target and record that you're experiencing this problem with?
Regards,
Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Data Services Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source email: gmc@esilibrary.com direct: +1 352-215-7548 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/
-- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 ext 36 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52)
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