[Koha] ISBN display

[Indranil Das Gupta]

Apropos to what Katrin said. To generate correct hypenation for ISBN, Koha
would need to know / be able to access the entire global list of ISBN
allotted, which is fairly an impossible task at the moment.

Indranil

On Mon 3 Sep, 2018, 11:26 AM Katrin Fischer, <katrin.fischer.83 at web.de>
wrote:

> Hi Rubén,
>
> at the moment Koha can't generate an ISBN with hyphens for display.
>
> Katrin
>
>
> On 03.09.2018 07:23, Rubén Fernández Asensio wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > I understand that by MARC specifications the ISBN hyphens "may be
> > system generated as display constants" and are not supposed to be
> > carried in the MARC record:
> > http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd020.html
> >
> > However all OPAC views show them without hyphens and I haven't found
> > any system preference to switch them on. On the contrary, I found
> > references to a patch to suppress them, at least in MARC view:
> > https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2592
> >
> > What's the appropriate way to switch on hyphen display in Normal and
> > ISBD views, if possible at all? I'm using Koha 18.05.
> >
> > Ruben
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