[Koha] Russian Language characters in public catalog

[James Weinheimer]

To see the ligatures in the catalog at the Library of Congress, see 
https://lccn.loc.gov/84174397

On 26-Jan-20 19:04, Eric Phetteplace wrote:
> Ineed after asking on Twitter, I discovered the arch is not an accent, but
> a ligature meant to indicate that two latinate characters are representing
> one Cyrllic one. It's apparently an idiosyncrasy of library cataloging:
>
> "Yup, left ligature and right ligature. It's because library
> transliteration values absolute precision over readability. Just writing ia
> could be, in theory, either иа or я, so the ligatures signify that it's all
> one letter under there."
> https://twitter.com/marccold/status/1220858664560529408
>
> Honestly though, it doesn't matter what language or meaning the symbol has,
> it doesn't render correctly in our catalog so I'm still stuck. I wonder if
> anyone else has a solution that doesn't involve simply using Arial. I see a
> lot of catalog records with this ligature and yet not every catalog is
> forced to use one of the small selection of fonts that support it, I hope.
>
> Best,
>
> ERIC PHETTEPLACE Systems Librarian (he/him)
>
> ephetteplace at cca.edu | o 510.594.3660
>
> 5212 Broadway | Oakland, CA | 94618
>
> :(){ :|: & };:
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 4:15 AM le-grex <post at grex.is-lost.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 26.01.20 um 12:54 schrieb le-grex:
>> *snip*
>>> So his latin Name is M. Saryan. Or in russian, М. Сарьян. I would not
>>> expect to see this pronounciation signs in a book search, since they are
>>> not part of his name. But i'm not a Librarian in the way that i know
>>> what the demands of these things are.
>> Excuse me, i meant "М. Сарьян" without the pronounciation sign ;)
>>
>> *snip*
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