[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Z39.50 client query encoding issues

[Linda Jansova]

Hi again,

We have installed a 2.8.3 and tested the Z39.50 server output, yet the 
problem with diacritics remains the same. Again, when submitting a 
generic query with diacritics (using yaz-client), we get the expected 
results, but when searching specifically for author, it results in no hits.

I have had a look at 
https://coffeecode.net/archives/217-More-granular-identifier-indexes-for-your-Evergreen-SRU-Z39.50-servers.html 
again and it seems to me that maybe the problem is caused by the fact 
that with the exception of keyword, each of the other indexes mentioned 
at Dan's blog (author, title, series, subject) is actually composed of 
more granular indexes.

Maybe I am on the wrong track but it seems to me that it would be rather 
a strange coincidence that keyword index (which I suppose the Z39.50 
client would use when no fields are specified) works fine unlike those 
other "composed" indexes...

Do you think that this could be the reason why we are experiencing the 
encoding problems? And if so, do you have any idea where to look for the 
appropriate encoding settings and change them to utf-8?

Thank you in advance for any clues to the puzzle!

Linda

On 08/19/2015 03:40 PM, Linda Jansova wrote:
> Oh, I see! In that case we shall try the upgrade and see what happens 
> (we shall keep you posted :-)...
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Linda
>
> On 08/19/2015 03:34 PM, Jason Stephenson wrote:
>> Quoting Linda Jansova <skolkova at chello.cz>:
>>
>>> Thank you, Jason!
>>>
>>> I have actually come across this bug as well but it seems that it 
>>> has already been fixed (or at least this is my understanding of 
>>> information from Launchpad) - we are currently using Evergreen 2.8.2...
>>
>> The fix only went in last night. It will be in today's release of 2.8.3,
>> so it might be worth the upgrade to see if it helps.
>>
>>>
>>> And you hit the nail on the head - we also usually search other 
>>> sources and so it took quite some time to discover the problem...
>>>
>>> Linda
>>
>
>