• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 18.01

Description:
We're trying to load records from the vendor China International Book Trading. They've supplied files in UTF-8 with the necessary data to spawn order records and items. However, upon completion of file_96, it looks like file_96 expects only MARC-8.

Is there a way to deal with the UTF-8 and file_96? If not, is it possible to add a drop-down selection like manage_18 has so that different types of encoding can be used with file_96?

Resolution:
This is a known problem with p_file_96. It is hardcoded to convert from MARC8 to Unicode. An advanced vendor loader (file-90) was implemented in v19. This new service has all the functionality of p_file_96 and additional functionality including character conversion routines, so p_file_96 will not be changed.

To use p_file_96, you will have to explicitly convert this file from UTF-8 to MARC8 and then load it. Here are the steps to do the conversion:
1) p_file_01
2) p_file_02
These two steps will convert the file to ALEPH Sequential Format.

3) p_file_22 specifiying UTF_TO_MARC8
This will do the character conversion. You can use the output of this step as the input to p_file_96.

(Keywords: p-file-01 file_01 p-file-02 file_02 p-manage-18 manage_18 p-file-96 file_96)

• Article last edited: 10/8/2013