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Re: [VuFind-General] diacritic display -- font problem?
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From: Andrew N. <and...@vi...> - 2008-05-21 20:13:04
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Well I slightly agree - I like putting the burden on the programmer and make things very easy for the implementer. Especially when the programmer is Wayne :) While we are on this topic - I have talked with some folks here as well as other libraries and there seems to be a common issue of records that are in utf-8 format but we not fully converted and have records that are ridden with bad utf-8 characters. Wayne - do you know of any java toolkits that can help cleanup utf-8 data during the import? Andrew > -----Original Message----- > From: vuf...@li... [mailto:vufind- > gen...@li...] On Behalf Of James Farrugia > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:56 PM > To: Wayne Graham > Cc: vuf...@li... > Subject: Re: [VuFind-General] diacritic display -- font problem? > > Hi Wayne, > > Thanks. I think the easiest way all around is to put the "burden" of > getting records into UTF-8 (which is what VuFind uses/requires, yes?) > on users rather than developers. > > The simple one-line yaz command with -o marc (thanks, Doug) is > all that's needed it seems. > > This seems the best way to deal with it (or some other conversion > to UTF-8 before loading into VuFind). > > Jim > > >>> On 5/21/2008 at 2:01 PM, Wayne Graham <ws...@wm...> wrote: > > Not sure if this will answer you question, but here it goes. > > > > The Java that does the indexing has several converters for different > > > formats . These include Ansel, ISO5426 (Latin), and ISO 6937 (ASCII). > > > The Ansel converter will convert to- and from- the MARC-8 format. > Right > > now the code to do the indexing doesn't do any conversion... is this > > > something you need? If so, we can do an enhancement request. > > > > If you're asking about UTF-8, this is a slightly different answer. By > > > virtue that it's Java, String objects are stored in UTF-16. I can't > > really think of a reason to do the extra programming to make it > UTF-8... > > > > Wayne > > > > James Farrugia wrote: > >> Andrew, > >> > >> Does VuFind offer a MARC to UTF-8 converter? > >> > >> Jim > >> > >> > >>>>> On 5/21/2008 at 1:39 PM, Andrew Nagy <and...@vi...> > >>>>> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> I just changed the CSS for vufind to no longer use Lucida Grande > as > >>> > >> the > >> > >>> default font due to the diacritics issues, the default is now > Arial > >>> > >> Unicode > >> > >>> MS, Arial, Sans-Serif. > >>> > >>> Arial Unicode MS is one of the most unicode compliant fonts and is > >>> > >> installed > >> > >>> with windows and OSX 10.5 or later. > >>> > >>> Andrew > >>> > >>> > >>>> -----Original Message----- > >>>> From: vuf...@li... > [mailto:vufind- > >>>> gen...@li...] On Behalf Of Corinna > Baksik > >>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:16 PM > >>>> To: vuf...@li... > >>>> Subject: [VuFind-General] diacritic display -- font problem? > >>>> > >>>> Hi - It seems that diacritical marks are not displaying properly. > >>>> > >> The > >> > >>>> accent displays over the letter to the right of where it should. > I > >>>> think > >>>> this is a font problem as I can save an html page and use a > >>>> > >> different > >> > >>>> font > >>>> and it displays correctly. For example, in this record the accent > >>>> > >> over > >> > >>>> the > >>>> first e in Bibliothèque is displaying over the q: > >>>> http://vufind.org/demo/Record/243957 > >>>> > >>>> This happens consistently for different types of accents and > >>>> > >> different > >> > >>>> letters. I suspect that the source record is in decomposed > Unicode, > >>>> otherwise it might display properly. We use Arial Unicode MS in > our > >>>> catalog > >>>> because it displays the most number of diacritics and non-Latin > >>>> characters > >>>> properly (though it is not without bugs). > >>>> > >>>> corinna > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Corinna Baksik > >>>> Harvard University Library > >>>> Office for Information Systems > >>>> 90 Mt. Auburn St > >>>> Cambridge, MA 02138 > >>>> > >>>> Phone: 617-495-3724 > >>>> Fax: 617-496-5600 > >>>> Email: cor...@ha... > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >>>> -- > >>>> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > >>>> Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > >>>> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> VuFind-General mailing list > >>>> VuF...@li... > >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-general > >>>> > >>> > >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > >> > >>> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > >>> Defy all challenges. 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