• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 21

Problem Symptoms:
When searching in a Z39.50 MAB environment with character code MAB-UTF8 all characters are displayed correctly except the umlaut. The umlaut is not displayed and a result looks like e.g. "K nigin" instead of "Königin"

Cause:
Defect

Resolution:
rep_change 2542:

Description: When searching, using the z39.50 protocol, in a MAB database that returns the data with utf8 encoding, the letter o with umlaut is corrupted.
 
Solution: This has been corrected.

Implementation Notes:
 
When searching, by using the z39.50 protocol, in a MAB database, set the following in the base configuration file. For example: ./alephe/gate/mabbaseutf8.conf:
 
Z58-IN-RECORD-TYPE MAB
Z58-IN-RECORD-CREATE vir_z00_z39_mabutf
Z58-IN-RECORD-CHAR-CONV

Category: Z39.50 (500) - ALEPH

Subject: ALEPH - 500

• Article last edited: 1/23/2014