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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hi all:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Happy Friday! We got a donations of some books that were translated from Japanese and when we imported the records from OCLC the diacritics didn’t come over into Alma correctly. The special letters (I’m guessing
it’s IPA since it’s a phonetic translation of Japanese – not using actual Japanese characters – but I could be wrong) are showing up as diamonds with a question mark (eg: Nihon senry</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">�</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">oshi).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Is there a setting I am missing in the import profile, or somewhere else in Alma, or maybe a setting in OCLC that we are missing to not get these characters to show up correctly? It’s also happening with the copyright symbol. The other funny thing I’m noticing in the records, is that some of the diacritics in the same record come over correctly, like this: <b>650#0$aNō plays</b>, and some don’t, so it seems random.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Here’s an example of a record where it has diacritics that are showing up oddly but others that are correct (note that those are in the 650 Subject fields, as opposed to the 520 description field, so don’t know if that makes a difference): <a href="https://sbctc-skagit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01STATEWA_SKAGIT/1k7g980/alma991000711585702822">https://sbctc-skagit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01STATEWA_SKAGIT/1k7g980/alma991000711585702822</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks in advance for any insights!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Elena Bianco<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Systems & Technical Services Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Norwood Cole Library, Skagit Valley College<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">2405 E. College Way<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Mount Vernon, WA 98273<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">(360)416-7624<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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