[Koha] Help needed to ensure MARC export is in UTF-8 encoding

[Jonathan Druart]

Hello Daniel,

Zeno fixed something like that recently on bug 12174.
The patch has not been backported on 3.16 yet.

Regards,
Jonathan

http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=12174

2014-08-21 8:28 GMT+02:00 Daniel Owens <dcowens76 at gmail.com>:
> Recently I was showing off what Koha and Zotero (www.zotero.org) can do, and
> I realized that when Zotero scrapes data it does not come into Zotero as
> UTF-8 text. The encoding and hence anything in Vietnamese gets jumbled up.
> With help from the Zotero community I learned that my instance of Koha was
> exporting MARC records in ISO-8859-1 not UTF-8. For the forum discussion,
> see
> https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/39395/koha-translator-encoding-problem/#Item_10.
>
> As an example, you can look up the record at
> http://koha.theology-vietnam.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=11&query_desc=kw%2Cwrdl%3A%20Kinh%20Th%C3%A1nh.
> The title is *Để Hiểu Kinh Thánh Cựu Ước*, but in Zotero it comes over as *Ä
> ể Hiểu Kinh ThaÌ nh Cựu*.
>
> I checked several other libraries running Koha and saw that they were
> configured in such a way that this problem does not occur. The odd thing is
> that a manually exported MARC record is read by my text editor as UTF-8, but
> web browsers and hence Zotero read them as ISO-8859-1.
>
> I am wondering if anyone can help me figure out how to configure Koha to
> export MARC records in UTF-8.
>
> Daniel
>
>
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