[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] z39.50 character set negotiation?

[Elaine Hardy]

​Jane,

OCLC does have a system alert posted and is working on a solution.

​With the exception of records with the copyright character or those titles
that are timely, our catalogers have been instructed to ​hold off importing
diacritic laden records (to prevent duplicates, we bring in records one at
a time). While it is time consuming, I have asked that, for those titles
they must import, they copy the diacritic from the Connexion Client and
paste it into the record in MARC edit. It slows things down, but it does
work.

OCLC generally fixes problems quickly. Hopefully, they will get this one
fixed today.

Elaine




J. Elaine Hardy
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Jane Sandberg <sandbej at linnbenton.edu>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> OCLC made updates to its z39.50 service on Sunday, and since then,
> it's been sending badly encoded characters like nobody's business.
> I've been able to find out how to get uncorrupted characters in
> yaz-client, but I don't know how to get Evergreen to do the extra
> utf-8-setting step detailed below.
>
> Example one: just regular old searching (doesn't work)
>
> $ yaz-client zcat.oclc.org:210/OLUCWorldCat
> Z> authentication user/pass
> Z> init
> Z> find 9786070131356
> Z> show 1
> <snip />
> 100 1  $a Plans, Juan Jose&#x301;, $e compiler.
> 245 10 $a Los mejores relatos de terror llevados al cine / $c
> seleccio&#x301;n, pro&#x301;logo y notas de Juan Jose&#x301; Plans.
> 250    $a Segunda edicio&#x301;n
> 264  1 $a Me&#x301;xico, D. F. : $b loqueleo, $c 2016.
> <snip />
>
> Example two: specifying utf-8 (which does work)
>
> $ yaz-client zcat.oclc.org:210/OLUCWorldCat
> Z> charset utf-8
> Z> authentication user/pass
> Z> init
> Z> find 9786070131356
> Z> show 1
> <snip />
> 100 1  $a Plans, Juan José, $e compiler.
> 245 10 $a Los mejores relatos de terror llevados al cine / $c
> selección, prólogo y notas de Juan José Plans.
> 250    $a Segunda edición
> 264  1 $a México, D. F. : $b loqueleo, $c 2016.
> <snip />
>
> Is there an Evergreen setting somewhere that would specify a charset
> and fix this problem?
>
> Thanks!
>
>   -Jane
>
> --
> Jane Sandberg
> Electronic Resources Librarian
> Linn-Benton Community College
> sandbej at linnbenton.edu / 541-917-4655
> Pronouns: she/her/hers or they/them/theirs
>
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