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

    Problem Symptoms:
    Special characters (e.g. Danish, Swedish, French) do not appear correctly in the client when searching in OCLC database using Z39.50

    Cause:
    Configuration

    Resolution:
    For OCLC there is a special character conversion table OCLC_TO_UTF. Add the following line to $alephe_gate/oclc.conf ...
    Z58-IN-RECORD-CHAR-CONV OCLC_TO_UTF
    ... and restart the Z39-Gate.

    Category: Z39.50 (500)


    • Article last edited: 10/8/2013
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