Hello Haik, There is no solution to this problem, which is why no further work has been done on it. As I say, the mailing list and bugzilla (bugs.koha-community.org) have extensive discussion on the problem.
Kind Regards, Chris On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Haik Zargaryan <haikzargar...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Thank you Chris. As I have understood from your response, there is some > partial solution for this problem. I have searched the web, found nothing. > Can you drop me a link on that issue? > > Thank you in advance, > Haik. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Chris Nighswonger <cnighswon...@foundations.edu> > *To:* Haik Zargaryan <haikzargar...@yahoo.com> > *Cc:* "koha@lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 23, 2013 7:09 PM > *Subject:* Re: [Koha] problems with the patron card creation (non-latin > characters) > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Haik Zargaryan > <haikzargar...@yahoo.com>wrote: > > Dear friends, > > I am trying to create cards for our patrons. Yet, when I export the batch > instead of the 'names' and 'surnames' some strange characters are > retrieved. > For example, > ---- > > Name: Ô±Õ¢Ö€Õ¡Õ°Õ¡Õ´ÕμÕ¡Õ¶ Ô¶Õ¾Õ¡Ö€Õ© ÕŽÕ¡Õ¦Õ£Õ¥Õ¶Õ« > > ---- > Maybe this is because the language is Armenian (a non-Latin script)? With > the English names everything works fine. This is a very important issue for > our library. Any ideas how to solve the problem? > > > This is most likely related to the issues of UTF-8 and PDF. It has been > discussed extensively on this list, so I will not rehearse it here except > to say that it will most likely not be fixed due to the complexity of the > issue. Some work has been done toward using css and the browser to handle > card and label printing. Probably that is the best hope for a fix at this > point. > > Kind Regards, > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha