Known Issues¶
- The
meta
method and theisbn_meta
script sometimes give a wrong result (this is due to errors on the chosen service), in alternative you should try one of the others services. - The
isbntools
works internally with unicode, however this doesn’t solve errors of lost information due to bad encode/decode at the origin! - Periodically, agencies, issue new blocks of ISBNs. The
range of these blocks is on a database that
mask
uses. So it could happen, if you have a version ofisbntools
that is too old,mask
doesn’t work for valid (recent) issued ISBNs. The solution? Update isbntools often! - Calls to metadata services are cached by default. If you don’t want this
feature, just enter
isbn_conf setopt cache no
. If by any reason you need to clear the cache, just enterisbn_conf delcache
.
Any issue that you would like to report, please do it at github or at stackoverflow with tag isbntools.