Problems with internet search

[Robby Stephenson]

On Tuesday 05 December 2006 18:25, Tobias Gruetzmacher wrote:
> So I want to add the book to my book collection. I open the internet
> search dialog. Since I want to scan the barcode of my book, I select
> "UPC" (shouldn't it be EAN/UPC or something like this?).

True. My ameri-centricity showing through...

> Then I scan the 
> very boring book with the EAN code 9783924861315. Here comes the first
> odd thing: Right after I scanned the code, the selection box changes
> from UPC to ISBN.

The UPC validator recognizes that the value is actually an ISBN-13. When I 
was doing some testing, Amazon gave better results when doing an ISBN 
search than a EAN/UPC search, so it switches. Maybe that would be best done 
behind the scene, so to speak.

> I ignored this and pressed the search button (I have 
> selected the german Amazon as a source). A dialog box tells me:
>
> 9783924861315 is not a valid value for ItemId. Please change this value
> and retry your request.

I think one of the recent amazon schema updates allows isbn-13 searches and 
ean/upc search across all of their product lines. I need to bump the schema 
version that Tellico uses, maybe that'll fix the search.

> After that, the input box is totally messed up, I can't delete single
> characters from it in any way (Try setting the cursor befor the forth
> character and delete multiple times, it looks quite funny...).

:) The ISBN validator gets a bit confused and tries to deal with it as an 
ISBN-10 value.

> Another thing: Where should I send updates for the German translation? I
> saw that it was a bit out of date and would be willing to update the
> strings. Should I just grab the files from the SVN branch and post a
> diff to this list?

Yes, that will work fine. Just diff the po file, 1.2 branch would be best at 
the moment.

Robby