[Koha] UTF-8 again

["Thommy M. Malmström"]

Joe Atzberger wrote:
> There are outstanding issues with certain UTF-8 record import via 
> z3950.  This should not be confused with Koha's internal representation 
> failing to handle UTF8.  Please test with a piece of original cataloging 
> to confirm.


Thanks for the info. As English isn't my primary language I don't get 
the second sentence though. What do you mean by "Please test with a 
piece of original cataloging to confirm." ???

Bear in mind that this mix of character sets settings is _really_ 
confusing and not at all intuitive IMHO.

Cheers,

/Thommy M.

> --Joe Atzberger
> 
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:06 AM, "Thommy M. Malmström" 
> <thommy.m.malmstrom at gmail.com <mailto:thommy.m.malmstrom at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I'm about to get crazy on this character set mix.
> 
>     I have Koha 3 on
> 
>     Ubuntu 8.04
>     MySQL 5
>     Apache 2.2
>     Perl 5.8
>     Firefox 3
> 
>     Stright out of the box installation.
> 
> 
>     I've followed the instructions on
>     http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=ubuntu_gutsy
>     to install and it went in with some minor hickups.
> 
>     When I use Z39.50 to search for an item it shows up with a black rhomb
>     with a white question mark in it if the character is outside ASCII. Like
>     ö becomes �
> 
>     If I save the record it shows up with the same rhomb/q-mark for those
>     characters.
> 
>     Then I went to http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=encodingscratchpad but
>     none of the hints there made any difference.
> 
>     So, is there anyone who have made this combination to play with non
>     ASCII characters. And if so, can you list what you have done outside of
>     the vanilla installation?
> 
> 
> 
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