Turkish characters?

[L. Jennings Rancourt]

Does anyone have any tips about how to get Scriblio to play nice with
Turkish characters?

Lichen Rancourt
lichenth...@gmail.com
www.remainingrelevant.net
aim & Y!: lichenrancourt

[don....@gmail.com]

Hey Lichen:
is it the MARC record data that's the problem? Or is it just the
Turkish characters within the interface itself?
Don

On Apr 9, 9:57 am, "L. Jennings Rancourt"

<lichentherelev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have any tips about how to get Scriblio to play nice with
> Turkish characters?
>
> Lichen Rancourt

> lichentherelev...@gmail.comwww.remainingrelevant.net
> aim & Y!: lichenrancourt

[zebil]

Problem is with MARC records. Same MARC record has shown in the
Catalog but if the record title has turkish character then has not at
all. Search result says "nothing found".

[zebil]

Is there any idea about this problem? Casey, Lichen? Do you think any
solution for this? First, i thought there is a problem about our MARC
records. But when i have tried import the same record with turkish
character and without turkish character i saw that there is not a
problem with our records. (unimarc) This is a Scriblio bug. If your
records have just english character you can easily import the
Scriblio. But what will we do? Do you think just english people use
Scriblio? Is there anybody use scriblio with korean, chinise,
japanese, arabic marc records? What are you then? Why somebody doesn't
help? Where is the project managers?

[lb...@ust.hk]

We at Hong Kong also encountered various problems on CJK
(Chinese, Japanese, Korean) characters during initial
installation of Scriblio back in December last year. We
did some customization to enable the importing, display,
indexing and searching of CJK characters, such as:

1. Inspect php codes that involve string conversion
functions. For example, ucwords() works for ASCII
characters only, and not for multibyte characters
such as UTF-8. And mb_convert_encoding(..., 'UTF-8')
is not needed if the source string is already UTF-8.
And htmlentities(...,UTF-8) should be
htmlentities(...,'UTF-8')
etc. etc.

2. Enhance importer to support capturing of vernacular
characters, which usually appear in tag 880 of MARC21
records.

3. Turn on Sphinx for CJK character searching. And add
TSVCC (Traditional, Simplified and Variant Chinese
Characters) linking as a "word form file" in Sphinx
to enable searching of various forms of Chinese
characters.

I will work with Casey to see how we can contribute our
customization to the Scriblio code base.

Zebil, I think your problem is very likely related to
Item 1 above. It may be useful if you can show us an URL
that will bring up a record on your ILS system so that
we can take a look.

Regards,
K.T. Lam
Head of Library Systems
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library

[Casey Bisson]

K.T. Lam:

Thank you for sharing your experience with this. I'd very much like to
incorporate both the extended character set support and the many other
fixes and enhancements you've made into Scriblio.

HKUST's efforts are really important, especially at this early stage
of the project, and demonstrate how OSS is built upon the
contributions from those involved with a project.

Thank you,

--Casey