Choose Characters/Diacritics a Dialog Box

To insert an international character into a MARC record by selecting the character or diacritic mark from the Character Picker dialog box:

Tip:
If you frequently enter diacritics, you can add Input Method Editor (IME) keyboards and switch back and forth from the English keyboard to the international keyboards. See Enter diacritics/characters using an IME keyboard.

Important:
When you enter a combining diacritic mark next to a subfield designator, insert the base character before the combining mark.

1. Open the Bibliographic Record or Authority Record workform.
2. Position the text cursor where you want to insert the character.
3. Select Tools, Diacritics or right-click anywhere in the workform, and select Diacritics from the context menu. Or, press ALT+D. The Character Picker dialog box opens with the (MARC-8)Basic Latin code chart displayed and a space selected.

 

4. Select the graphic set in the Graphic set box.

Note:
The Graphic set drop-down list contains the traditional MARC 8 code ranges and most Unicode code charts. When you select a graphic set, the characters belonging to the selected graphic set appear.

 

5. Position the cursor where you want to insert the character.
6. Double-click the character, or select the character and click Insert.

The selected character is displayed in the MARC 21 view. If a particular character cannot be displayed using the fonts that are available to the workstation, a missing glyph box displays where the character would normally appear. When the missing glyph box is displayed, the correct Unicode character is stored in the record.