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

[Jesse A Lambertson]

Bruce,

Assuming your matching rules are set (by isbn or whatever), I would 
think you should be able to reimport those newly exported utf-8 records 
to overlay the old faulty records.

My particular use of koha is different because many many of the items in 
my collection do not contain any ISBN.

You might also reverse an import from records management if the affected 
records were imported at the same time.

I hope this helps,

Cheers

Jesse


On 02-Jun-16 4:01 PM, Bruce Willms wrote:
> 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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