Re: more on coding. (was: Searching webpac with CJK vernacular)

[Michaela Brenner <mbrenner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd like to follow up on this problem. I am not sure if this came with the 
last III upgrade or with my re-loading of CJK records in preparation for 
III's CJK module since these two things happend close in time:
Our Web OPAC now has problems displaying foreign language charactes, and it 
does things unpredicatably. For example, when I search for "Über den ... ", 
I get strange characters, because my default setting is Western (this is 
because I search more often in FirstSearch, and Firstsearch does not 
display German in Unicode, only in Western) and III's OPAC doesn't consider 
German as a Western language. If I then click on a title in the browse 
display, it sometimes switches automatically to  Unicode and it's OK, but 
sometimes it switches to another Western code, and I get other strange 
characters, and sometimes it doesn't switch at all. I am still talking 
about the same search, there is no pattern I can recognize.
We also received complaints from faculty who all of a sudden had problems 
displaying foreign language titles.

Did anyone else have the same problems and what had caused them? Is there a 
fix for them or do we just have to toggle between codings? I am a little 
concerned about how bad it may get as soon as we have the CKJ module set 
up. But mayby this will fix all the other problems?

Thanks for any help.

Michaela

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Michaela Brenner
Bibliographic Records Librarian
Gould Library - Carleton College
One North College Street
Northfield, MN 55057

Voice: (507) 646-5136
Fax: (507) 646-4087
E-mail: mbrenner@xxxxxxxxxx




--On Monday, August 18, 2003 8:51 AM -0400 Howard Pasternack 
<Howard_Pasternack@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

- It works on our system at http://library.brown.edu
-
- File a ticket with Innovative.  We had the same problem.  One day it was
- working and the next day it wasn't.  Also, if you have multiple East
- Asian languages, check them all out.  For a while we had Chinese working,
- but it took Innovative several months to fix Korean.  -- Howard
-
- At 05:38 PM 8/18/2003 +1000, you wrote:
-> Dear Colleagues,
->
-> I know this has been touched upon before on the list, but I have not
-> seen  a solution posted.
->
-> Our East Asian librarians used to be able to input CJK vernacular in
-> webpac advanced keyword searches, using a Unicode port, but it doesn't
-> work any more.
->
-> I feel there are so many variables here - has anyone managed to overcome
-> this problem?
->
-> Cheers,
->
-> Bruce.
->
-> ********************
-> Bruce Eames
-> Technical System Librarian
-> Information Acquisition & Organisation Section
-> Information Division
-> University of Melbourne
-> Victoria 3010
-> Australia
-> Tel. (03) 8344 4236
-> bme@xxxxxxxxxx
-> ********************
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