Re: [Koha] Russian Language characters in public catalog

2020-01-26 Thread Andy Boze
What you're looking for is a class of Unicode characters called combining marks. In this specific case, you're looking for combining half marks, which when put together span multiple characters, such as the ligatures used to transcribe Cyrillic characters in Latin characters. Not all fonts

Re: [Koha] Russian Language characters in public catalog

2020-01-26 Thread James Weinheimer
To see the ligatures in the catalog at the Library of Congress, see https://lccn.loc.gov/84174397 On 26-Jan-20 19:04, Eric Phetteplace wrote: Ineed after asking on Twitter, I discovered the arch is not an accent, but a ligature meant to indicate that two latinate characters are representing

Re: [Koha] Russian Language characters in public catalog

2020-01-26 Thread Eric Phetteplace
Ineed after asking on Twitter, I discovered the arch is not an accent, but a ligature meant to indicate that two latinate characters are representing one Cyrllic one. It's apparently an idiosyncrasy of library cataloging: "Yup, left ligature and right ligature. It's because library

Re: [Koha] Russian Language characters in public catalog

2020-01-26 Thread le-grex
Am 26.01.20 um 12:54 schrieb le-grex: *snip* > > So his latin Name is M. Saryan. Or in russian, М. Сарьян. I would not > expect to see this pronounciation signs in a book search, since they are > not part of his name. But i'm not a Librarian in the way that i know > what the demands of these

Re: [Koha] Russian Language characters in public catalog

2020-01-26 Thread le-grex
Am 25.01.20 um 00:03 schrieb : > Hi all, Hi, > > This is perhaps more of a general web design problem than a Koha-specific > one but I'm wondering if others have had trouble with accented Russian > characters displaying properly and what their solution was. Here's a search > of all our

[Koha] Russian Language characters in public catalog

2020-01-24 Thread Eric Phetteplace
Hi all, This is perhaps more of a general web design problem than a Koha-specific one but I'm wondering if others have had trouble with accented Russian characters displaying properly and what their solution was. Here's a search of all our Russian language records