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lairdb · 01-02-2016, 04:18 PM

Ran across a strong example of something I had previously suspected: library searches are particularly sensitive to character sets. (Mind you, I'm not sure there's an obvious fix, or even one needed, but it's a "be aware".)

I added a book I was looking for by ISBN (9781607747314), then downloaded metadata. (Amazon, Goodreads, Google, are my metadata sources.)

For the author, I got back "Marie Kondō"

Note the final character is not "o" but "ō"

Code:

 	Unicode character			Oct	Dec	Hex	HTML
ō	latin small letter o with macron	0515	333	0x14D	ō

Plugin search for books by this author did not return any results -- until I updated the ō to be an o, which is how Overdrive and 3M have the author.

01-02-2016, 04:18 PM	#522
lairdb dog ear Posts: 53 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: lots	Character set issues Ran across a strong example of something I had previously suspected: library searches are particularly sensitive to character sets. (Mind you, I'm not sure there's an obvious fix, or even one needed, but it's a "be aware".) I added a book I was looking for by ISBN (9781607747314), then downloaded metadata. (Amazon, Goodreads, Google, are my metadata sources.) For the author, I got back "Marie Kondō" Note the final character is not "o" but "ō" Code: Unicode character Oct Dec Hex HTML ō latin small letter o with macron 0515 333 0x14D ō Plugin search for books by this author did not return any results -- until I updated the ō to be an o, which is how Overdrive and 3M have the author.