• Article Type: General
• Product: Alma

Problem Symptoms:
- In records imported from OCLC Connexion, special characters and diacritics appear to be corrupted.
- Corrupted special characters and diacritics are replaced by groups of characters that may resemble: "&#241;" or "&#169;" or "<U+fffd>" etc.

Cause:
- When Connexion has been configured to export records in MARC-8 Format, Connexion will translate non-MARC-8 characters not Numeric Character Reference (NCR) format.
- Alma is unable to translate NCR characters in the context of a MARC-8 format record.
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Resolution:
Configure Connexion to export records in UTF-8 format.

Category: Alma -

• Article last edited: 3/6/2015