Bug 24716

Summary: Foreign language doesnt show.
Product: Koha Reporter: Thanasis M <thanasisthanasis96>
Component: CatalogingAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: CLOSED INVALID QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: m.de.rooy
Version: 19.05   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
GIT URL: Initiative type: ---
Sponsorship status: --- Comma delimited list of Sponsors:
Crowdfunding goal: 0 Crowdfunding committed: 0
Crowdfunding contact: Patch complexity: ---
Documentation contact: Documentation submission:
Text to go in the release notes:
Version(s) released in:
Circulation function:

Description Thanasis M 2020-02-24 10:07:01 UTC
Hi everyone, i am new to Koha. 

My library has both English and Greek books. When i add a book with greek characters, the biblio table fills correctly, but biblio_metadata (in the collumn metadata) the xml doesnt show the greek characters. That way the recordings have only the ISBN code correctly. It is a coding issue because he english books are all saved correctly, but what is it?!

Thank you all :)
Comment 1 Katrin Fischer 2020-02-24 21:43:45 UTC
Hi Thanasis, please note that bugzilla is used for reporting bugs and enhancement requests and only very few people read the new bugs - it's almost always better to check on the mailing list first if someone can help you out.

Things that come to mind here:
- How do you catalog your records? Are they downloaded or manually added?
- Have you modified the frameworks in any way?
- Do you have a LDR set? (this has a position for encoding that can mess things up if missing)
Comment 2 Thanasis M 2020-02-25 10:53:43 UTC
Oh, sorry and thank you for the reply!

-The records are manually added.
-I use a basic framework (it was installed automatic with Koha) and i only made some subfields ignored.
-I dont have an LDR set, i dont even know what that is.

The problem is that greek characters in table biblio_metadata are not been saved at all. I guess its a "Perl" problem, but what exactly!
Comment 3 Katrin Fischer 2020-02-25 12:24:23 UTC
It's mor likely to be a configuration issue - Koha is really good with Unicode.
The LDR or 000 field must be included - if you made that ignored, it could cause your issue.
Comment 4 Thanasis M 2020-02-26 06:32:59 UTC
Thank you, that was it! I did not have 000 field at all. I still dont understand why i should have it (it is filling automatically) but that was it. Thank you again!
Comment 5 Katrin Fischer 2020-02-26 07:00:43 UTC
(In reply to Thanasis M from comment #4)
> Thank you, that was it! I did not have 000 field at all. I still dont
> understand why i should have it (it is filling automatically) but that was
> it. Thank you again!

It contains information on the encoding of the record - I have run into this previously with German umlauts :)