Re: [Koha-devel] UTF-8

[Thomas Dukleth]

TARGET ISSUES.

Are you certain that your Z39.50 target is returning records with UTF-8
encoding?  If you supply the connection parameters and a test search for
records which you believe are problematic, then I can test the target
myself.


BYTE CODES NEEDED FOR A RELIABLE CHECK.

You need to compare the hexadecimal byte codes in the actual records with
your expectation.  Placing example characters in an email message is not
enough because one has to separate problems of browsers not sending UTF-8
requests and systems rendering UTF-8 fonts correctly.

Sadly, Firefox is a poor performer for transmitting data in UTF-8.  I use
Firefox regularly but it does have this data transmission problem when the
client is in a non-UTF-8 environment.  Some fonts used in Koha stylesheets
are especially problematic for rendering characters correctly in some
environments.  The stylesheet font problem should have been fixed long ago
but different developers have different environments and do not see the
same problems for font rendering.

(Please note that I do not run my email client in UTF-8 mode.)


Thomas Dukleth
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On Sun, March 11, 2007 12:18 am, Dorian Meid wrote:
> Gentlemen,
>
> I have a problem using UTF-8 with Koha.
> If I import MARC-Data via z3950 special characters are treated
> differently
>
> ÄÜÖäüö works at some pages but not in all.
> ß dosn't work at any page.
>
> This is the ü I get from z3950 and this is the ü which is generated when
I type it.
> These are two different characters.
>
> I'm using Koha 2.2.8, MySQL5 and Apache 1.3 on Mac OSX 10.4 with Firefox.
> I've read the notes on the Wiki and my server, Database and the
> tables are set to UTF-8.
> I also set the templates encoding variable and added the encoding to
httpd.conf
> The z3950 server sends data UTF-8 encoded
>
> Did I miss something?
>
> Dorian Meid
>
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