On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Linda Jansova <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 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.