Re: [IUG] Musical Sharp and Flat symbols - display in Web Catalog and in Millennium

["Wanda K. Gunther" <boots at email dot unc dot edu>]

We are having the same issue at UNC-CH.  Once I finally called the help 
desk, since email exchanges were not working, the person who talked to 
me said that Innovative wasn't displaying or indexing the sharp since it 
could not be typed into a record with a keyboard.  I pointed out it was 
now a valid character in MARC8 and appears in the Millennium character 
map (which I used to globally change the characters that did not appear 
to import from Connexion or our authority vendor correctly).

The person at the help desk said they could re-index our catalog and use 
either the pound or the sharp for retrieval.  They are still working on 
how to get the character to display correctly.

You will want to call the help desk to get this resolved.  I haven't 
even started working on the flat issue yet, but have it on my to do list.


Wanda


Amy Hart wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Before contacting Innovative Help Desk, I'm hoping that someone (maybe 
> in a Music Library?) will have some information on why the following 
> happens. It is most likely an inconsistency that's been around for a 
> long time, but we hadn't noticed.
>
> Some Background info:
> We get our bib records from OCLC. We export in MARC 8, not Unicode. Our 
> Millennium database is not Unicode converted yet.
> We are on Web Pac Pro for our Public Catalog.
> We are on Release 2006  1.3 in Millennium.
>
> -----
> In Millennium clients,
> In Browse lists:
> the Sharp sign - doesn't display 
> the Flat sign - displays as the letter 'b'
>
> In Millennium clients,
> at the full Record display level:
> the Sharp sign - displays correctly
> the Flat sign - displays correctly
>
> In WebPacPro,
> In Browse lists:
> the Sharp sign - doesn't display 
> the Flat sign - displays as the letter 'b'
>
> In WebPacPro,
> at the full Record display level:
> the Sharp sign - displays correctly
> the Flat sign - displays as the letter 'b'
>
>
> What various things would we need to look at to troubleshoot and get 
> both the Sharp and Flat signs to display as themselves everywhere?
> Or, what would we need to do to get the Sharp sign to display in Browse 
> lists? (Or perhaps display as the # pound sign?)
> It seems that the lack of the Sharp sign in the browse displays in the 
> client and in WebPacPro would be misleading -- if you're looking at a 
> list of titles and you see:
> ...Opus 10 F Minor
> ...Opus 23 Eb Major
> Why would you think that the first entry was for F# (F sharp)?
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
> Thanks,

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wkg

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Wanda K. Gunther
Database Management Services, Interim Head
and Head, Authorities & Batch Processing, Authorities Librarian
Database Management Services
Resource Desc. & Management Dept.
Walter R. Davis Library
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
wkg at unc dot edu     (919) 962-9692

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