Comments on: MarcEdit 5.1 Update http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/blog/archives/511 On my work (programming, digital libraries, cataloging) and other stuff that perks my interest (family, cycling, etc) Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:18:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Administrator http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/blog/archives/511#comment-106348 Administrator Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:13:29 +0000 http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/blog/archives/511#comment-106348 Casey, So that's interesting. So far in my testing (and granted, I've only worked with maybe 100 or so Z servers), I've found that UTF8 query support is indeed very few and far between, but that the method of converting data down to latin-1 seems to work fairly reliably. Would you happen to have some examples of servers that behave oddly. Would give me some test cases to work with. --TR Casey,

So that’s interesting. So far in my testing (and granted, I’ve only worked with maybe 100 or so Z servers), I’ve found that UTF8 query support is indeed very few and far between, but that the method of converting data down to latin-1 seems to work fairly reliably. Would you happen to have some examples of servers that behave oddly. Would give me some test cases to work with.

–TR

]]> By: casey http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/blog/archives/511#comment-106347 casey Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:50:41 +0000 http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/blog/archives/511#comment-106347 Yes, character sets for Z39.50 searches are a huge mess. Maybe 10% of targets I've tested support UTF-8 queries, 80% support Latin-1, and the other 10% are totally screwy (will only accept ASCII or something unusual like KOI-8-R or Latin-2, or will only accept certain diacritics and not others.) Sadly, the only way to figure out what encoding a server will accept is manual testing. Anyway, I feel your pain ;) Yes, character sets for Z39.50 searches are a huge mess. Maybe 10% of targets I’ve tested support UTF-8 queries, 80% support Latin-1, and the other 10% are totally screwy (will only accept ASCII or something unusual like KOI-8-R or Latin-2, or will only accept certain diacritics and not others.) Sadly, the only way to figure out what encoding a server will accept is manual testing. Anyway, I feel your pain ;)

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