Hello Dan, I checked our systems and I see that we have libencode-perl version 2.12. We will upgrade and test and see what happens.
al On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 10:38 -0400, Dan Wells wrote: > Hello Alan, > > Mostly just a stab in the dark, but maybe this is another form of the > Encode.pm bug mentioned here?: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/525069 > > In a different post Dan Scott recommends: > > "Basically, ensure that you have the libencode-perl module installed to > get a working version of the Encode.pm Perl module." > > Good luck, > Dan > > >>> On 6/9/2010 at 9:57 AM, Alan Rykhus <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > We're having a problem in MARC Edit where when we try to save a record > > we get the following: > > > > > > Network or server failure. Please check your Internet connection to > > balsam.mnpals.net and choose Retry Network. If you need to enter > > Offline Mode, choose Ignore Errors in this and subsequent dialogs. If > > you believe this error is due to a bug in Evergreen and not network > > problems, please contact your help desk or friendly Evergreen > > administrators, and give them this information: > > method=open-ils.cat.biblio.record.xml.update > > params=["3cb05162d451a7aa5640490ffde742ca",99254,"<record > > xsi:schemaLocation=\"http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim > > http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/schema/MARC21slim.xsd\"; xmlns:xsi= > > \"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\"; xmlns= > > \"http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim\";>\n <leader > > . > > . > > . > > <subfield code=\"c\">99254</subfield>\n </datafield>\n</record>"] > > THROWN: > > {"payload":[],"debug":"osrfMethodException : *** Call to > > [open-ils.cat.biblio.record. > > > > I've traced the problem down to the function 'sub entityize' in > > Application::AppUtils. > > > > In this function there is a call to: > > > > $string = decode_utf8($string); > > > > The problem seems to be that the record(string) is already in utf8. If > > you check the string with: > > > > is_utf8($string) > > > > a true response will be returned. Should this call to decode_utf8() be > > wrapped? for example: > > > > if (! is_utf8($string)) { > > $string = decode_utf8($string); > > } > > > > It seems that the object of decode_utf8 is to put the string into the > > perl internal utf8 format used by perl and to turn the utf8 flag on. If > > the flag is already on, as determined by the is_utf8 call, it does not > > make sense to decode_utf8 a string that is already utf8. > > > > In addition, according to the perl documentation: > > > > is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK]) > > > > [INTERNAL] Tests whether the UTF8 flag is turned on in the STRING. If > > CHECK is true, also checks the data in STRING for being well-formed > > UTF-8. Returns true if successful, false otherwise. > > > > > > So the is_utf8 call makes sure we have a well-formed string when the > > utf8 flag is indeed on. > > > > gosh I hope this makes sense(because it fixes the problem we're seeing) > > -- al > > > > > > -- > > Alan Rykhus > > PALS, A Program of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities > > (507)389-1975 > > [email protected] > > "It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a > > horse" ~ Adlai Stevenson > -- Alan Rykhus PALS, A Program of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (507)389-1975 [email protected] "It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse" ~ Adlai Stevenson
