[Koha] Koha and display of diacritics/non-Roman alphabets/characters

[Bruce Willms]

Jesse,

Thanks for the info.  I do use the client, so I can correct that easily.  Another thought: Can I re-export those few records from OCLC after I change to utf-8 and re-import them into Koha to correct the diacritics?  I'm guessing that would work, but I'm still very new to Koha.

Many thanks,
Bruce



-----Original Message-----
From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Jesse A Lambertson
Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 12:35 PM
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha and display of diacritics/non-Roman alphabets/characters

Yes, very important. When you export from Connexion, export in utf-8 (which Koha defaults to of course) instead of Marc-8.

I can attest from experience that this is true!

You can change the export encoding in "options" if you use the client.

Hope this is helpful,

Jesse


On 02-Jun-16 12:53 PM, Bruce Willms wrote:
> Hi Owen,
>
> I will have to check the set up.  The records are imported  from OCLC.
>
> Bruce
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Owen 
> Leonard
> Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 11:16 AM
> To: koha <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha and display of diacritics/non-Roman 
> alphabets/characters
>
>> Can someone explain how to set up the system to properly display 
>> diacritics and non-Roman characters?
> Are you creating these records yourself, or are you importing them? I find that non-Roman characters will display incorrectly if you choose the wrong character encoding during the "Stage MARC records for import" process. For instance, if you're importing a MARC file which is encoded as MARC 8 but you keep the default UTF-8 setting.
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