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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The problem might be the one described in this recent post from the Mideastcat discussion list<b>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I’ve noticed this happening when I’ve worked with bibliographic records for archival collections, where the Scope and Contents note was copied/pasted into the record from an
online finding aid. Hyphens and apostrophes seem to be the main problems in those records. I’ve found that those characters can be displayed (highlighted in red) in OCLC Connexion by clicking on the “Edit” tab, selecting “MARC-8 characters” , then “Verify.”
The you can insert the ALA diacritics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">See if this works for Hebrew script.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Faye Leibowitz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">General Languages Catalog Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">University Library System<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">University of Pittsburgh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:frleibo@pitt.edu">frleibo@pitt.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
<a href="mailto:mideastcat-l@googlegroups.com">mideastcat-l@googlegroups.com</a> <<a href="mailto:mideastcat-l@googlegroups.com">mideastcat-l@googlegroups.com</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Joyce E. Bell<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 10, 2018 3:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Henderson, Lykes Shelton <<a href="mailto:lykes@pobox.upenn.edu">lykes@pobox.upenn.edu</a>>;
<a href="mailto:mideastcat-l@googlegroups.com">mideastcat-l@googlegroups.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: question about ALA diacritics versus (Windows) unicode characters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi Shelton,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I think what is happening isn’t necessarily a choice to use a composed character, but rather, in some cases at least, is caused by a change in how OCLC bulk loads
records from institutions that catalog locally. I contacted my counterpart at Stanford and this is what she says has happened with their data. Overall cataloging practice is to use the decomposed characters, I think the standard covering this is from here
(but I’m not sure):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.loc.gov%2Fmarc%2Fspecifications%2Fspeccharucs.html&data=01%7C01%7Cfrleibo%40pitt.edu%7Cc60edbbcb366406689a808d5e69d589a%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1&sdata=Lm8M663VxdnpY9yjkKDTo9khduPdxXk7tBDZEHGzqSA%3D&reserved=0">https://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/speccharucs.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Joyce<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">
<a href="mailto:mideastcat-l@googlegroups.com">mideastcat-l@googlegroups.com</a> [<a href="mailto:mideastcat-l@googlegroups.com">mailto:mideastcat-l@googlegroups.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Henderson, Lykes Shelton<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 10, 2018 10:36 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:mideastcat-l@googlegroups.com">mideastcat-l@googlegroups.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> question about ALA diacritics versus (Windows) unicode characters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Hi, All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I've noticed over the past year or so that some libraries are choosing to use unicode characters, for example "ḥ" (U+1E25: Latin small letter H with dot below), in their OCLC Connexion
cataloging rather than ALA diacritics (entering an "h" and applying the ALA diacritic "dot below letter"). Neither method causes a problem when searching romanized fields in OCLC. However, my library catalog disassociates (I hope this is the right word)
romanized names with unicode characters from romanized names with ALA diacritics, even though these romanized names look identical to the naked eye. In addition, OCLC Connexion, at this time, doesn't control fields that contain unicode characters; it only
controls fields that use ALA diacritics. Moreover, the transliteration tools in OCLC don't work if a unicode character is present in a romanized field. I can see why using the unicode characters makes sense, in that nobody other than catalogers would use
OCLC Connexion to enter diacritics, but if you are dealing with an OCLC record without Arabic script, you have to delete the unicode characters and reenter the letters and ALA diacritics if you want to use the transliteration tools or control fields. Is there
any direction the MELA Committee on Cataloging can give as to which method of entering letters with diacritics is preferred?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Shelton Henderson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">University of Pennsylvania<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Heb-naco <heb-naco-bounces@lists.osu.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Miriam Gloger<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 24, 2018 7:00 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Hebrew Name Authority Funnel <heb-naco@lists.osu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Heb-NACO] copying and pasting diacritics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I've noticed this problem with WEINB (Weinberg vendor records), mainly with the Alif and Ayin and especially hypens. Anyone know of a good way to show the codes in the record?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 2:47 PM, Neil Manel Frau-Cortes <<a href="mailto:nfrau@umd.edu" target="_blank">nfrau@umd.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Lately I am encountering a number of bib records on OCLC where a cataloger has copied and pasted romanizations from somewhere else. The problem is that, even if it displays correctly and it validates, the diacritics map and index wrongly. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="color:black">Neil M. Frau-Cortes, Ph.D. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">(he, him, his)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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