[OPEN-ILS-DEV] 1.6RC1 - Import (Staff Client) - possible bugs

[Mike Rylander]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Duimovich, George
<George.Duimovich at nrcan-rncan.gc.ca> wrote:
>
> This might be the problem - for our III system, the export is apparently fixed in an available software update for the release we're on..
>
>        "When exporting records using Unicode storage of special characters, the leader/09 will be correctly populated."

That would do it, indeed.

--miker

>
> George
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Scott
> Sent: September 18, 2009 22:59
> To: Evergreen Development Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] 1.6RC1 - Import (Staff Client) - possible bugs
>
> 2009/9/18 Duimovich, George <George.Duimovich at nrcan-rncan.gc.ca>:
>>
>> A few issues for import via Staff Client
>>
>> * diacritics -- following import of records from III export -- accents
>> don't show up properly in Staff Client and OPAC - eg. "G©♭ologie"
>> instead of "Géologie"
>
> Have you tried importing some known good records, to ensure that the problem isn't a bad leader in the III-exported records that says they're UTF8 encoded when they're actually MARC8 encoded, or vice versa?
>
> http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/trunk/Open-ILS/tests/datasets/lul_fre_100.mrc
> should be a good set of 100 MARC8 encoded records to try out.
>



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