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Terry Reese <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 9 Jun 2016 13:39:20 -0400
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Hi Steve, 

Here's my guess -- are you mixing UTF8 and MARC8 data.  If MarcEdit finds
UTF8 data in your record, it won't convert these mnemonics (good reasons for
that).  There was a time when I allowed for lazy loading -- if you had mixes
of UTF8 and MARC8 data in the same record, MarcEdit would attempt to process
the mnemonic diacritics if they are there.  However, this was becoming
problematic for a lot of reasons for international users.

--tr

-----Original Message-----
From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of McDonald, Stephen
Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2016 10:25 AM
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Subject: [MARCEDIT-L] MarcEdit compiler not compiling symbols and diacritics

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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