Bug 24425

Summary: Remove utf8 as an export option
Product: Koha Reporter: Aleisha Amohia <aleisha>
Component: CatalogingAssignee: David Roberts <david.roberts>
Status: CLOSED INVALID QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: david.roberts, m.de.rooy
Version: MainKeywords: Academy
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Description Aleisha Amohia 2020-01-14 23:57:53 UTC
it's a character encoding, not a file type. Doesn't really makes sense.

Option exists for both bibliographic records and authority records.
Comment 1 David Roberts 2020-04-17 22:16:06 UTC
There are three MARC options:

MARC (non-Unicode/MARC-8)
MARC (Unicode/UTF-8)
MARC (Unicode/UTF-8, Standard)

I'm not sure what the difference between Unicode and Unicode Standard are, but it seems sensible to keep at least one of these. In order for compatibility with other systems, it seems most practical to keep a non-unicode and a unicode export, but I'm happy to take advice on this.
Comment 2 Katrin Fischer 2020-04-18 02:26:25 UTC
Hm, I am not sure if Aleisha meant the download/export options for records or not. Aleisha, can you clarify?


> MARC (non-Unicode/MARC-8)
> MARC (Unicode/UTF-8)
> MARC (Unicode/UTF-8, Standard)
> 
> I'm not sure what the difference between Unicode and Unicode Standard are,
> but it seems sensible to keep at least one of these. 

Standard doesn't include the non-standard 9xx $9 x9x, xx9 custom fields :)
Comment 3 Katrin Fischer 2023-12-10 10:40:09 UTC
I believe all available options produce different formats/output, so this might be invalid. The internal naming could probably be improved.