I believe I've had the same problem, which was solved by deleting the subfield $a that was visible (and leaving be the one that wasn't). I believe the new RLIN21 client (version 2.2), yet to be officially released, has provided a fix. I've been an early-release tester, and so far haven't seen a recurrence. Can't say for sure that it's fixed, though, since it had only happened to me on rare occasions in the first place.
Daniel
According to RLG:
A fix to a right-to-left input problem when an initial Unicode control character in a right-to-left field resulted in a spurious "Duplicate subfield 'a' not allowed" validation error.
At 11:39 PM 7/13/2005, Heidi G. Lerner wrote:
To: RLIN2 21 Catalogers
Have any of you noticed the following problem wihen cataloging bib records in RLIN21?
a right-to-left input problem when an initial Unicode control
character in a right-to-left field results in a spurious "Duplicate
subfield
'a' not allowed" validation error?
If yes, could you please let me know and describe your experiences.
Thanks, Heidi
Heidi G. Lerner
Hebraica/Judaica Cataloger
Catalog Dept.
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
ph: 650-725-9953
fax: 650-725-1120
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Hebraica Team Leader
Catalog Department
Sterling Memorial Library
Yale University
PO Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520
tel: 203/432-1707
fax: 203/432-7231
