[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] character set

Jason Etheridge jason at esilibrary.com
Mon Mar 29 08:09:16 EDT 2010


On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Marjolein Kremer <mkr at iisg.nl> wrote:
> We have a question. Is it possible to work with different character sets
> in one database? For example Cyrillic alphabet, Chinese characters
> together with the Latin alphabet. If not how to deal with this?

Yes, if you can get it into a MARC record (via MARC8 or UTF8) then you
can use it in Evergreen.  Unicode gets used for everything from
database to client.

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