[Koha] Error faced on Koha v.3 demo for academic libraries

[selma aslan]

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 at phonecoop.coop] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:00 PM
To: selma at etu.edu.tr; koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Error faced on Koha v.3 demo for academic libraries

"selma aslan" <selma at 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,
-- 
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