[Koha] Koha and RFID?

[Joe Atzberger]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Marijana Glavica <mglavica at ffzg.hr> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 09:55:05AM +0100, Katrin Fischer wrote:
> > I read in the release notes, that Koha Supports SIP2:
> >
> > >To retrieve and interact with Circulation and Patron data, Koha 3
> includes
> > >support for 3M's Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP2), using the
> OpenNCIP
> > >libraries (http://openncip.org).
> >
> > Is there some documentation besides
> > http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:sip2?
>
> I found this:
> http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2362
>
> and it was actually helpful :)
> basically, all you have to do is edit SIPconfig.xml and run SIP server with
> perl -IC4/SIP -MILS C4/SIP/SIPServer.pm C4/SIP/SIPconfig.xml
>
> Until now we tested SIP2 with emulator and the real self-check station
> (3M), and it works fine, except that we still have problems with
> Croatian diacritics.


Yes, the problem here is that the 3M specs for SIP do not accommodate
UTF-8.  The best we can do is represent the characters in an encoding that
doesn't break the transport layer (e.g., telnet).

Koha could allow for a non-spec UTF-8 mode, but without knowing how many
terminal devices would be able to use it, it would be of questionable value.

I would be interested to talk to a 3M representative for Europe (or other
areas) to know how they have implemented accommodations for advanced
diacriticals and other non-ASCII characters.

--Joe
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