It sounds like your catalog is set to use MARC-8 encoding, and you are trying
to load records with UTF8 encoding. You can use MarcEdit to change the
encoding of the records to MARC-8, or you can ask III to switch your encoding
to UTF8 (which may require a service fee).
Steve McDonald
[email protected]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Han, Yan
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 7:03 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] III loading module cannot handle non-English characters
>
> Hello,
> We have problems using III loading module to load MARC files (.mrc) to our
> catalog. This is to use "Data Exchange" > "Load Electronic Records (itm)".
> Basically non- English characters (French, Arabic ) will be changed to
> unknown symbols. The MARC files (.mrk and .mrc) are verified before
> loading to III. There are only two issues:
> 1. the III configuration might be wrong.
> 2. The III loading module has a bug and it probably does not know how to
> deal with non-English characters.
>
> Anyone having similar experience or resolving it?
> Thanks,
> Yan
