[OPEN-ILS-DEV] [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Record webpage and programming documentation?

[Linda Jansova]

Hi,

Just to let you know - our programmer has eventually come up with a 
workaround which we think may be useful for others and so we are sharing 
our solution:

All characters in added content with ASCII code higher than 127 have 
been converted to HTML entities :-).

Linda

On 7.9.2016 08:37, Linda Jansova wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We are currently developing a module for pulling added content (book 
> jackets, tables of contents etc.) from our local provider obalkyknih.cz.
>
> In our programming endeavor we have come across an encoding issue 
> which we have not been able to resolve so far. The thing is all 
> textual added content gets messed up when shown on a record webpage. 
> Our programmer has made a number of tests to make sure that the 
> encoding does not go wrong in the module we are developing (a list of 
> tests performed is available at 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1610678). We have also 
> tested Open Library – when it comes to tables of contents with 
> diacritics, it is also messed up.
>
> To investigate the issue further, could anyone provide us with any 
> hints as to:
>
>  *
>
>     how (where) the record webpage actually pulls together?
>
>  *
>
>     how AddedContent.pm methods (which provide the added content) are
>     called?
>
> One more question – is there any developer documentation which would 
> describe Evergreen architecture in more detail available?
>
> BTW could our developer's hint that „interestingly on URL in form 
> http://evergreen-server/opac/extras/ac/toc/html/r/23225 I could see 
> toc in correct encoding“ be of any use? It seems to me that if we 
> figured out what the differences between how data are processed for a 
> record webpage and for the sample URL above, we could actually hit the 
> nail on the head...
>
> Thank you in advance for sharing any clues!
>
> Linda
>

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