-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Problems with Superscript Characters in Connexion Browser & Client Resolved Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:42:55 -0500 From: Caplan,Ellen <[log in to unmask]> To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]> To Maps-l subscribers-- For those of you who catalog on OCLC, the following may be of interest to you. I reported on this late last week. Please note, we have already identified and fixed 115 records with incorrect 255 $c data that were added during this time period. We still plan to identify the records that were replaced during this time period with incorrect 255 $c data as well as any newly added records where the characters appeared in other fields. ------ To OCLC-Cat subscribers-- The problems that have been reported over the last couple of weeks with bibliographic records that contain superscript characters were resolved this past weekend. The fix also included subscript and Greek characters. You should now be able to retrieve records containing these characters, enter these characters without losing data, and update or replace records with these special characters in WorldCat through Connexion without receiving error messages. There may be a few records you cannot retrieve if these records were added to or replaced in WorldCat through Connexion while we were working to resolve the problem. We are in the process of identifying and correcting these records, e.g, map records with incomplete coordinate information in field 255 subfield $c and records that have these characters in other fields. If you find a record that cannot be retrieved because it probably contains these characters, please email OCLC’s Quality Control section at [log in to unmask] with the search key you were trying to enter. In addition, if any duplicate records were created because of this problem, we will merge the duplicate records as they are reported. Should you continue to have problems with records containing superscripts, subscripts or Greek characters, please let us know. Thanks for your patience while we resolved this problem. --Ellen Caplan OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. 6565 Frantz Rd. Dublin, OH 43017 800-848-5878, ext. 6472 Fax: 614-718-7178 email: [log in to unmask]