[IUG] Musical Sharp and Flat symbols - display in Web Catalog and in Millennium

[Amy Hart <ahart at minlib dot net>]

Hello,

Before contacting Innovative Help Desk, I'm hoping that someone (maybe 
in a Music Library?) will have some information on why the following 
happens. It is most likely an inconsistency that's been around for a 
long time, but we hadn't noticed.

Some Background info:
We get our bib records from OCLC. We export in MARC 8, not Unicode. Our 
Millennium database is not Unicode converted yet.
We are on Web Pac Pro for our Public Catalog.
We are on Release 2006  1.3 in Millennium.

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In Millennium clients,
In Browse lists:
the Sharp sign - doesn't display 
the Flat sign - displays as the letter 'b'

In Millennium clients,
at the full Record display level:
the Sharp sign - displays correctly
the Flat sign - displays correctly

In WebPacPro,
In Browse lists:
the Sharp sign - doesn't display 
the Flat sign - displays as the letter 'b'

In WebPacPro,
at the full Record display level:
the Sharp sign - displays correctly
the Flat sign - displays as the letter 'b'


What various things would we need to look at to troubleshoot and get 
both the Sharp and Flat signs to display as themselves everywhere?
Or, what would we need to do to get the Sharp sign to display in Browse 
lists? (Or perhaps display as the # pound sign?)
It seems that the lack of the Sharp sign in the browse displays in the 
client and in WebPacPro would be misleading -- if you're looking at a 
list of titles and you see:
...Opus 10 F Minor
...Opus 23 Eb Major
Why would you think that the first entry was for F# (F sharp)?

Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks,

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Amy Hart
Head,Bibliographic Services
Minuteman Library Network

Email: ahart at minlib dot net
Phone: (508)655-8008 x222