[yul-naco] Diacritics : bib. vs. NACO records

[Steven Arakawa]

Manon, would it not be the case that we could access the old bib database 
using cal rlin (cat) after logging on to authorities? The old database is 
not unicode, so one could copy headings from it (or use the gen command) 
until RfW AUT is replaced by the client. This would not be possible for 
those who are actively creating new records on RLIN21 and wish to copy the 
bib headings to their NARs, since the CAT database is frozen, but for the 
short term a lot of headings can be derived or copied from member records 
that predate RLIN21. Also, as long as we continue to use the RfW AUT 
database, we should be able to copy headings from Orbis into the NAR; I'm 
assuming that won't be the case once we start using the client.

Steven Arakawa

At 11:07 AM 3/2/2005, you wrote:
>Now that some of you have gone live with RLIN21, please remember:
>
>If you create/update a bibliographic record using RLIN21, and then go to 
>create/update a NACO authority record using RLIN Terminal for Windows, pay 
>close attention to the placement of diacritics!
>
>In the bib record, the diacritics now go *after* the letter according to 
>Unicode conventions; in the authority record, the diacritics will continue 
>to go *before* the letter as in the past (for the time being anyway).
>
>This means that you cannot copy and paste between the two records as 
>easily as you used to; editing of the pasted fields will be required!
>
>Bib and authority record input of diacritics will not be in synch until 
>the NACO-enabled version of the RLIN21 client has been released, tested, 
>and implemented. And we don't know exactly when that will be!
>
>-Manon
>
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>Catalog Department, SML, 2-8376
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