[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Special diacritics

[Hardy, Elaine]

James, 

Yes. PINES has experienced this and has opened a helpdesk ticket with this specific author and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir . While not really an o, many sites and databases will retrieve searches like Hoeg for Høeg or Sigurdardottir for Sigurðardóttir . We were told it would take development for those searches to return the correct authors in Evergreen . 






Elaine 


J. Elaine Hardy 
PINES Bibliographic Projects & Metadata Manager 
Georgia Public Library Service 
1800 Century Place, Ste 150 
Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304 

404.235-7128 
404.235-7201, fax 
ehardy at georgialibraries.org 
www.georgialibraries.org 
www.georgialibraries.org/pines 




From: "James Fournie" <james.fournie at gmail.com> 
To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 3:43:02 PM 
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Special diacritics 

Hello there, 

One of our SITKA sites has noticed that some characters such as ø do 
not function as expected in search results. This problem was 
encountered with the author Peter Høeg -- a search for "Hoeg" 
generally works but it does not return some results that contain the 
special character unless they're found without the accent elsewhere in 
the MARC record without that character. In the database, items are in 
fact indexed with the ø. 

The reason for this is that ø is can not be broken into a base 
character with a combining character -- é, è, ê are all based on e 
with a combining accent. ø is actually not an o and there is no 
combining character of a diagonal slash like that. ø is instead its 
own character. There are other similar characters that have this 
problem, for example the German ß transliterates as 'ss', and the 
character æ is like ae. All of this is normal standard Unicode 
behaviour, but not necessarily desirable from a user perspective. 

I'm wondering if any other sites have any experience with this or any 
ideas for dealing with this situation. This is a problem that mostly 
affects Germanic languages. 

Thanks! 

~James Fournie 
BC SITKA 
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