[Koha-win32] Win32 Patch & bulkmarcimport results

[m . mason]

Dear Rob and all

Win32 patch applied with no errors.
When import first attempted, received error message:
C:\usr\koha227\scripts\misc\migration_tools>bulkmarcimport.pl
Can't locate object method "ignore_errors" via package
"MARC::Charset" at
C:\usr\koha227\scripts\misc\migration_tools\bulkmarcimport.pl line
24.

I had received this error message also before applying patch.
Had previously tried commenting out this line 24; then (in past),
received the error message about not finding method 'encoding' in
MARC::Record.

But this time, after applying patch, receiving 'ingore_errors' error
message, and commenting out this line,
import proceeded!

4015 records imported.
When an author is searched in the OPAC and records examined, they look
OK!!!

So the 'encoding' error when importing is solved.  Users need to
solve the 'ignore_errors' error themselves by commenting out line 24.

I'm curious as to why Rob did not comment out line 24 as part of his
patch.
He must have had a reason; since he recommended that Dave should comment
it out.

Note also that in bulkmarcimport.pl at lines 7-23, a previous author
("thd") inserted the section quoted below:
-- does it perhaps imply that  the line:
use
 MARC::Record;
and maybe also other lines like:
use
 MARC::Batch;
use
 MARC::Charset;
may be a kind of workaround, adopted because
MARC::File::XML was not working properly?
Perhaps it works now??


Lines 7-24:
# Koha modules
used
use
 MARC::File::USMARC;
# Uncomment the
line below and use MARC::File::XML again when it works better.
# -- thd
# use MARC::File::XML;
use
 MARC::Record;
use
 MARC::Batch;
use
 MARC::Charset;

# According to
kados, an undocumented feature of setting MARC::Charset to 
# ignore_errors(1) is that errors are not ignored.  Instead of
deleting the 
# whole subfield when a character does not translate properly from MARC8
into 
# UTF-8, just the problem characters are deleted.  This should solve
at least 
# some of the fixme problems for fMARC8ToUTF8().
# 
# Problems remain if there are MARC 21 records where 000/09 is set
incorrectly. 
# -- thd.
#MARC::Charset->ignore_errors(1);

This seems to have a bearing on that troublesome line
24!


Thanks again Rob.

         Michael Mason.

(Rev. Dr.) Michael Mason C.Ss.R. S.T.M. M.Phil. Ph.D.

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