[Heb-NACO] copying and pasting diacritics

[Neil Manel Frau-Cortes]

Dear all,

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.

Example: 1031899969 Ḥorvot min ha-hoṿeh (with the under-dots) was done
this way. The diacritics, when transferred to Aleph looked like $orvot min
ha-ho eh : and of course the indexing and searching didn't work.

Maybe it's somebody who copies from another place in order to avoid typing
the under-dots, not sure. Problem is, when you search for the tile it is
not indexed correctly and when you transfer it to Aleph it becomes
gibberish.


So heads up, that's it.



Kol tuv,

-- 

*Neil M. Frau-Cortes, Ph.D. *(he, him, his)

Judaica, Hebraica and Metadata Cataloger


University of Maryland

4109 McKeldin Library

College Park, MD 20742

Phone (301) 405-9337

nfrau at umd.edu

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1881-1405
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