[Koha] 008 Fixed length data elements: problems with imported records in 3.12

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org> wrote:

> Still, there's an underlying quirk - if Koha sees a character it doesn't
> like in the 008 editing window, it skips over it and collapses the rest of
> the data.
> While the non # characters were originally in the correct place - once we
> touch that field in the editing window they are moved to a different
> position, and either ignored because they're not valid or dumped in the
> wrong place where they are valid, but incorrect.
>
> Of course if it didn't do this, we probably would have never noticed the #
> issue.
>

Indeed, this is worth writing up as a bug report; I've certainly run into
MARC records in the past that used # where blanks were meant.

Regards,

Galen
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