Re: [Koha-zebra] Re: Unimarc, marc21, Unicode, and MARC::File::XML

[Adam Dickmeiss]

Tümer Garip wrote:
> Hi Adam,
> You seem a bit offended that was not my intention, just frustation
> sometimes
> makes me use harsh words and translanting them to english may be too
> harsh.
>
> I do not need to send you any config+examples cause I tested this with
> your default config files. I am attaching an xml record in utf-8
If you're to receive help from me you need to to tell me which zebra.cfg 
you're using. And show me the record + the way you indexed it (zebraidx 
update ?)
> Briefly I had default configuration files and build zebra with xml
> records. When I noticed the problem
> I used yaz-client to see what was going on. On my log I could see data
> going in the zebra was with encoding utf-8
> While yaz client was returning xml with headers saying iso-8859-1 while
> I could actually see the utf-8 characters as they show as hex in yaz
> client.
I also need to know what you see? And you you'd expect to see.

/ Adam

> I have retried this procedures just now and it seems the same. Just
> adding encoding:UTF-8 to zebra.cfg and restarting the server you get
> correct heading and correct data. Please note that server has to be
> restarted but zebradb does not have to be rebuilt.
>
> Thanks
> Tumer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Dickmeiss [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 9:00 PM
> To: Tümer Garip
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Koha-zebra] Re: Unimarc, marc21, Unicode, and
> MARC::File::XML
>
>
> Tümer Garip wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > This problem if I understood it correctly has got nothing to do with 
> > mysql or perl it has to do with ZEBRA unless it is to do with UNIMARC 
> > which I am not familiar with. As you know (Paul) I have an utf-8 
> > version working.
> >
> > I had the same problem from records coming from zebra and found out 
> > that it is not doing what it is supposed to do unless you explicitly 
> > set it to utf-8. You have to explicitly put "encoding utf-8" in all 
> > your zebra config files especially the zebra.cfg and your .abs . 
> > Otherwise unlike the documentation saying that zebra character code is
>
>
> > automatically set by the xml encoding it DOES NOT.
>
> I can't reproduce this (bug). Care to share a a config+example that 
> illustrates this (Inserts an XML record from Perl in UTF-8) ?
>
>
> > Perl send xml to zebra with encoding utf-8 on the header and utf-8 
> > data in it. Zebra saves all the data in utf-8 but returns an xml 
> > saying encoding iso8859-1 at the header and utf-8 characters in data. 
> > No module can correct this as it is stupid.
>
> Just need to know when the stupidity starts:-)
>
> / Adam
>
>
> > I corrected the problem by adding encoding:UTF-8 in zebra.cfg, 
> > record.abs, sort-string.chr
> >
> > Hope it solves yours,
> >
> > Tumer
> >
> >
> >
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