[Koha] problems with the patron card creation (non-latin characters)

2013-01-23 Thread Haik Zargaryan
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?

Thanks in advance,
Haik.
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Re: [Koha] problems with the patron card creation (non-latin characters)

2013-01-23 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Haik Zargaryan haikzargar...@yahoo.comwrote:

 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
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Re: [Koha] problems with the patron card creation (non-latin characters)

2013-01-23 Thread Chris Nighswonger
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.comwrote:

 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.

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 *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.comwrote:

 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



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