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

2016-12-05 Thread Elaine Hardy
The 264 fields are the most likely field to be locally added if the library is editing hybrid AACR2/RDA records to full RDA in their catalogs. And 264s are also likely to be the only field in a MARC record for an English language title to have a special character since we indicate copyright and pho

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

2016-12-03 Thread Brent Mills
Jason and Mike, Thanks so much for the help! Glad to know that it’s a remote issue and not something set up incorrectly on our side. -Brent - Brent Mills Systems Librarian | Sage Library System email: br...@hoodriverlibrary.org tickets: https://sagelib.org/support p

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

2016-12-02 Thread Mike Rylander
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 recently noticed some issues w

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

2016-12-02 Thread Jason Stephenson
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 su

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

2016-12-02 Thread Brent Mills
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 so