What does Bad character (1). mean?

[Esther Mandel]

I'm trying to update a level 3 record, and no matter what I do, it just says Bad character (1). I've replaced all the 1s, ls, and Is in the record, and it still says that. I can't save it, I can't export it, I'm not sure I can get out of the program! Any advice?


Esther Mandel
Cataloger
Sarasota County Public Libraries
Sarasota, Florida, USA
emandel-***@public.gmane.org



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[Mark Ehlert]

Post by Esther Mandel
I'm trying to update a level 3 record, and no matter what I do, it just says Bad character (1). I've replaced all the 1s, ls, and Is in the record, and it still says that. I can't save it, I can't export it, I'm not sure I can get out of the program! Any advice?

Where are you seeing this message? Your local catalog? Connexion?
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[Mary Mastraccio]

Without seeing the actual record and knowing the setting (is this OCLC) it is hard to tell what the problem is but your efforts to replace characters are on the right track. You might try replacing the first character in the field.


Mary L. Mastraccio
ALA-ALCTS-CaMMS Past-Chair
Cataloging & Authorities Manager
MARCIVE, Inc.
San Antonio, TX 78265
1-800-531-7678


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Subject: [ACAT] What does Bad character (1). mean?

I'm trying to update a level 3 record, and no matter what I do, it just says Bad character (1). I've replaced all the 1s, ls, and Is in the record, and it still says that. I can't save it, I can't export it, I'm not sure I can get out of the program! Any advice?


Esther Mandel
Cataloger
Sarasota County Public Libraries
Sarasota, Florida, USA
emandel-***@public.gmane.org



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[Kathy Glennan]

I had this problem recently in the Connexion client. There was a stray, apparently blank, character at the end of one variable field. I suggest going to the end of each line and hitting the backspace key to eliminate any unseen spaces that might be causing this problem.

Kathy


Kathy Glennan
Head, Special Resources Cataloging / Music Cataloger
University of Maryland


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Subject: [ACAT] What does Bad character (1). mean?

I'm trying to update a level 3 record, and no matter what I do, it just says Bad character (1). I've replaced all the 1s, ls, and Is in the record, and it still says that. I can't save it, I can't export it, I'm not sure I can get out of the program! Any advice?


Esther Mandel
Cataloger
Sarasota County Public Libraries
Sarasota, Florida, USA
emandel-***@public.gmane.org

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[Williams, Ann]

I find this happens when I paste in contents and there's some sort of character like and apostrophe.

Ann Williams

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I had this problem recently in the Connexion client. There was a stray, apparently blank, character at the end of one variable field. I suggest going to the end of each line and hitting the backspace key to eliminate any unseen spaces that might be causing this problem.

Kathy


Kathy Glennan
Head, Special Resources Cataloging / Music Cataloger
University of Maryland


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Subject: [ACAT] What does Bad character (1). mean?

I'm trying to update a level 3 record, and no matter what I do, it just says Bad character (1). I've replaced all the 1s, ls, and Is in the record, and it still says that. I can't save it, I can't export it, I'm not sure I can get out of the program! Any advice?


Esther Mandel
Cataloger
Sarasota County Public Libraries
Sarasota, Florida, USA
emandel-***@public.gmane.org

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[Esther Mandel]

Thanks to everyone who worked on my "Bad character (1)" problem. It wasn't the first or the last characters of any line, it wasn't the magically duplicated line that appeared in the middle of the record, and I hadn't picked up and pasted any characters except some in other OCLC records-- So I gave up and retyped over every single character in the record, including the fixed field-- and that worked.

I still don't know what the problem was, but I suspect it was something invisible in the fixed field. It was (had been) a level 3 record. And it's fixed. Moving on.

Esther Mandel
Cataloger
Sarasota County Public Libraries
Sarasota, Florida, USA
emandel-***@public.gmane.org

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