Bug 408809

Summary:	ISBN Field not accepting entry of 13-digit ISBN
Product:	[Applications] tellico	Reporter:	Matt Smith <mtgsmith>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Robby Stephenson <robby>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde+bgu7
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	3.1.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mint (Ubuntu based)
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Matt Smith 2019-06-17 04:33:24 UTC

SUMMARY
Creating a new book (by clicking on the New) button. Get to the ISBN# field and it only accepts 10-digit ISBNs.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Click New to create a new Book entry in the library.
2. Go to the ISBN# field.
3. Attempt to enter a 13-digit ISBN.

OBSERVED RESULT


EXPECTED RESULT


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Linux/KDE Plasma: Linux Mint 19.1
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Robby Stephenson 2019-06-18 01:45:31 UTC

I can't reproduce any problem. What ISBN are you entering (978- or 979-?) and how are you entering it? (typing one digit at a time, copy/paste, etc)?

Comment 2 Matt Smith 2019-06-18 06:55:33 UTC

The ISBN is 5800-1344-1985-4.
I have tried both pasting it in, as well as entering it digit by digit.
When I get to the ninth digit, Tellico generates the checksum digit (tenth for a 10-digit ISBN) and blocks farther entry.

Comment 3 Robby Stephenson 2019-06-18 12:55:37 UTC

My understanding is that 13-digit ISBN values for books all start with 978 or 979. Is there anything about the book that would make it non-standard?

Comment 4 Matt Smith 2019-06-19 05:41:46 UTC

Printed by Lulu. Presumably, they have been given a valid series.

Comment 5 Robby Stephenson 2019-06-20 00:45:15 UTC

I'm sorry. I don't think your ISBN is valid. It has to start with 978 or 979 according to the standard.
https://www.isbn-international.org/content/what-isbn

I'm not sure why Lulu would have assigned such an ISBN. Their FAQ implies they do use 978 prefixes.
https://connect.lulu.com/en/discussion/234381

Comment 6 Matt Smith 2019-06-20 01:51:37 UTC

Thank you, and sorry for the bother.
I have contacted Lulu to find out what's going on.

Comment 7 Triton Circonflexe 2022-10-08 10:06:03 UTC

For information, I found the same issue with several books that were given for 2 other books bought.

For example “Une vie merveilleuse” by Laurie Collins (Editor: Le Livre de Poche)
They display the (pretended) ISBN# on the back of the book: “ISBN : 301-0-000-03813-9”
The ISBN# for the buyable book is 978-2-253-06696-5 (but the cover is very slight different as the gift book has a small patch saying it’s 1 free for 2 bought).

I was ready to open a bug for that but I saw this ticket : Does anyone know how to open a bug on the editor side? /o\