[Koha] Problem with Unicode records

[Joe Atzberger]

> We are using KOHA 3.0 ubuntu. It works fine with english records. The
> problem is that  it does not retrive Urdu and Arabic records correctly
>

This is a very tricky problem related to encoding and z39.50.  You have
stated only the most basic summary of the problem.  For a full analysis we
would need to know:

   - What MARC "flavour" is your Koha catalog: MARC21 or UNIMARC?
   - Can you catalog original records (i.e., not downloaded) in Urdu or
   Arabic yourselves?  This would demonstrate that Koha itself is setup OK.

The rest of the questions would have to do with your z3950 target:

   - MARC21 or UNIMARC?
   - What encoding is the z39.50 connection: MARC8 or UTF8?

If the target is publicly available, please supply the information we would
need to test connecting to it.  We might not be able to read Urdu, but we
can still detect if the encoding is invalid.

-- 
Joe Atzberger
LibLime - Open Source Library Solutions
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