Corrupted Japanese characters ... a fix is on the way!

For those whose titles have been entered in Kanji/kana, and who have been frustrated by the database corruption of those characters ... Chris and Christopher are reporting that they are hoping to have a fix up by Tuesday (August 8):

http://groups.google.com/group/Librarything/browse_frm/thread/6bb770845dbff659/e...

Yay for the LT team! I know this has been a tough one for them, and I really appreciate all the work they've put into it.

Yay, the fix is up! Check out the Google group.

I did, I did! I've been corresponding with Christopher on the "Unicode, Unicode, Unicode" thread (which is all about this problem).

Not all the recovered data was good, but at least 75% of it was... and so I was able to restore uncorrupted data on about 15 of my Japanese titles.

I highly recommend trying this out... it's quick and easy to use, and far better than having to retype it all by hand :-)

This is good news. Next on my wishlist would be allowing (clickable) kanji author names. I've changed mine to romaji as more books are listed under romaji names but I'd like to connect the books with people who have the author in kanji too.

Does that make sense?

PS Sorry for the "I want, I want..." attitude.

PS Sorry for the "I want, I want..." attitude.

Hey, I want those things too.

There's one other thing I really want. That's for the ISBN to be carried over when I search for and add a book from Amazon Japan. Most of the other info comes across, but not the ISBN. It always has to be added manually to the saved record.