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"McDonald, Stephen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 9 Jun 2016 14:24:44 +0000
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I am seeing a strange problem, which I am surprised no one has reported.  Either something very strange is going on with my machine or there is a major bug.  MarcEdit does not seem to be compiling symbols and diacritics.

I was editing records in MarcEdit and loading them into Millennium this morning.  Once the records were in Millennium, I noticed that they contained strings like "{copy}" and "{acute}" rather than the expected copyright symbol and diacritic mark.  I tried upgrading to the most recent version of Millennium, and tried testing again.  I am still seeing this problem.

Here is how I tested.  I found an old MARC file that I had edited in MarcEdit and loaded into the ILS months ago.  I verified that the record in Millennium contained a copyright symbol, confirming that the MARC file which was loaded was fine.  The MARC file has not been edited since then.  I confirmed that it was still fine by test loading the record again; the copyright symbol appears in the resulting record in Millennium.  Then I used MarcEdit to extract one record from the file, and compiled the single record to .mrc format.  Then I tried loading the single record.  The symbol comes out as {copy} rather than the copyright symbol.

It looks like MarcEdit is not compiling the diacritics and symbols.

                                                                                Steve McDonald
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