Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Mangled UTF8 characters with imported MARC records in Z39.50

Jason hit on (almost certainly) the answer: bad records from sources that don't restrict cataloging to valid character sets. I'll add a couple comments below for general clarification, as well... On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Brent Mills wrote: > Hello, > > I’ve

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Mangled UTF8 characters with imported MARC records in Z39.50

Brent, The records are mostly likely not MARC-8 or UTF-8. The example you shared looks like a Windows-1252 "smart" quote. I would not be surprised if the records have characters from multiple character sets in them. I've seen that before. I don't have any useful suggestions for you, other than

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Mangled UTF8 characters with imported MARC records in Z39.50

Hello, I’ve recently noticed some issues with imported MARC records from a specific set of Z39.50 servers. A noticeable amount of records that are imported through Prospector/MaineCat targets have mangled characters when diacritics, symbols,etc.. are present in the record. Does anyone have

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fines conundrum

Thank you Josh, We'll dig in and see if this is the culprit. Regards, John Clark -- Retired librarian, author, freelance editor, book reviewer https://www.facebook.com/wizardofhartland http://cmldbookreviews.com/

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fines conundrum

John, do you mean that the summary balance under the bills tab shows nothing? [cid:image001.png@01D24C8F.F0680970] I’ve seen this happen when I’ve changed values in the money.payments table instead of the table the corresponds with the payment type. There are materialized views (a summary

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fines conundrum

Hi folks, At least two of our member libraries in the Maine Balsam Consortium are perplexed and vexed. I've copied their problem below in hopes someone in the Evergreen world might have experienced (and solved) a similar issue. I thank all in advance for any shared wisdom. Regards, John R.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen International 2017 Pre-conference Proposals

Thanks Jim, If others have ideas of what type of pre-conference programs they would like to see, please chime in. We would love to see what people are interested in. The deadline for submitting pre-conference proposals is coming up, Dec 8. Pre-conference presenters will receive a complimentary