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    Z39.50: Greek characters are not displayed

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

    Problem Symptoms:
    When searching in a foreign database Greek characters are not displayed properly and a search with Greek characters leads to no result

    Cause:
    Configuration

    Resolution:
    The relevant lines in $alephe_tab/z39_gate/z39_gate_XXX.conf should have no character conversion assigned. Then utf_8 is considered.

    $alephe_tab/z39_gate/z39_gate_XXX.conf
    Z58-OUT-FIND-CHAR-CONV
    Z58-IN-RECORD-CHAR-CONV
    Z58-IN-RECORD-FIX
    Z58-IN-SCAN-CHAR-CONV
    Z58-OUT-SCAN-CHAR-CONV

    Category: Z39.50 (500)

    • Article last edited: 10/8/2013