Comment 1 for bug 347736

The best solution here is for your sponsor to correct their MARC records to indicate the second language. It is true, as stated in the bug report, that multiple language codes are allowed in MARC, and our code will extract them from any of the 3-4 standard places where they might be found in the MARC record, but both of the test books referred to in the bug report have MARC records that specify only English.

If those records can't be corrected for whatever reason, and the second language code is to be added manually to meta.xml, it has to be added as a second <language> element, not appended to the first element. In other words, "engfre" is correct in the MARC, but would be converted to:

<language>eng</language>
<language>fre</language>

in meta.xml. Currently the metaform page in the biblio tool offers no way to specify additional elements, so it's not possible to manually add languages there; perhaps the biblio tool could be modified to allow adding elements, like the Metadata Editor in the Item Manager, and the QA page in the metamgr, now do.

It looks as though this experimentation has been going on for a month or so. Did anyone consider just emailing me during that time?