Thank you once again, Dan! It is tremendously helpful for us that you
have provided this short-term fix :-)!
Linda
On 04/09/2015 06:58 PM, Dan Scott wrote:
So I have a short-term fix that sites can apply documented in the bug
at https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1442276 - but it's not
something that I think is the right long-term fix.
Still, seems worthwhile to point it out so that sites that want to
make their Zotero users (and other users of SuperCat feeds) happy can
do so until we figure out how to fix the problem properly.
Dan
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Linda Jansova <skolk...@chello.cz
<mailto:skolk...@chello.cz>> wrote:
Thank you in advance, Dan!
Linda
On 04/08/2015 05:29 PM, Dan Scott wrote:
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Linda Jansova <skolk...@chello.cz
<mailto:skolk...@chello.cz>> wrote:
Hi,
Our colleagues in Jabok Library would like to promote the
usage of their Evergreen OPAC as Zotero source data so that
their patrons (and others of course) would be able to import
individual bibliographic records to Zotero reference
management system (https://www.zotero.org/).
When used as a Mozilla Firefox plugin, it is clear that the
data are imported via unAPI
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnAPI; unfortunately the
homepage at http://unapi.info/ does not seem to be working; a
bit of unAPI documentation is available at
http://code4lib.org/files/unapi_revision_1-14.html, though
maybe it is not the latest version).
Everything seems to work fine with one exception and these
are records with non-ASCII characters such as letters with
diacritics ("č" for example). As Czech language uses plenty
of these, this issue virtually prevents us from using
Evergreen as Zotero data source.
However, I have had a look at other Evergreen catalogs
(including the one from Laurentian University) and it seems
to me that the problem is also present there, e.g.
https://laurentian.concat.ca/eg/opac/record/104728?query=francais;qtype=keyword;locg=105;detail_record_view=1
(Le francais renouvelé - the "é" character is wrongly
interpreted as could be seen at the attached picture).
Both in Jabok library catalog and in the catalog at
Laurentian I have encountered the same problem when trying to
print sample records with these say "special" characters,
e.g.https://laurentian.concat.ca/eg/opac/record/print/104728?query=francais;qtype=keyword;locg=105;detail_record_view=1
Firefox seems to interpret the character encoding as Unicode
when viewing the usual (not the print) version of the bib
record but when one hits the "Print" button and then - when
the print version is displayed - checks the encoding, Firefox
interprets it as Western. Koha users have also been trying to
sort out a similar issue
(https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/39395/koha-translator-encoding-problem/)
- in their case the solution seems to be to modify
opac-export.pl <http://opac-export.pl> to export as UTF8.
Any ideas how to fix the issue in Evergreen? (Jabok uses
Evergreen 2.6.4.)
Thank you in advance for sharing any hints!
Hi, that's an interesting problem. Zotero uses Evergreen's MODS
output, and it seems that the problem crept into the conversions
that use specific MODS versions; compare
https://laurentian.concat.ca/opac/extras/supercat/retrieve/mods/record/28391
to
https://laurentian.concat.ca/opac/extras/supercat/retrieve/mods3/record/28391
and you'll see that the first one works as expected, while the
second one is corrupted.
This is an issue for us too, as you can imagine (we're a
bilingual institution with an extensive French collection), so
I'll be digging into this. I recently fixed a similar problem
with our Z39.50 server output, so hopefully it won't take too long.
