From: James F. <jfa...@dr...> - 2008-05-21 18:56:01
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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. 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. 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. 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 |