[Koha] Bulkmarcimport and special characteres

MJ Ray mjr at phonecoop.coop
Thu Nov 9 07:53:12 NZDT 2006


> From: "José Lagoas" <jlagoas at lnec.pt>
> Second Question: The Portuguese Language uses some special characters
> like "ã". We have used bulkmarcimport for importing our database. This
> program changes "ão" to "ô", "ãe" to "ê " and "áu" to "ù". Have you any
> idea how to solve this problem?

Sounds like a character encoding problem.  If bulkmarcimport is using 
UTF-8 at last, try running:
  iconv -f iso-8859-15 -t utf-8 -o outfile.marc infile.marc
and then feed outfile.marc to bulkmarcimport.

Hope that helps,
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