How should I handle MARC::Batch and diacritics? I am in the process of creating a rudimentary index to my home book collection. The index features:
* author, title, and subject browsable lists * search result sorts by author, title, year, and rank * preference settings * a search history * all the cool search functions of swish-e http://infomotions.com/books/ In order to get the MARC records for my "catalog" I have been searching the LOC catalog, identifying the record I desire, and using Net::Z3950 to download the desired record via the MARC 001 tag. Tastes great. Less filling. I then run a program of my own design looping through my MARC records, extracting the necessary information, creating a set of rudimentary XHTML files, and indexing the resulting data. When I loop through my MARC records MARC::Batch sometimes warns that the MARC leader is incorrect. This happens when the record contains a diacritic. Specifically, my MARC::Batch object returns "Invalid record length..." I have discovered that I can plow right through the record anyway by turning on strict_off, but my resulting records get really ugly at the point of the diacritic: http://infomotions.com/books/?cmd=search&query=id=russell-world-107149566 What am I doing wrong, or what can I do to parse my MARC records more accurately? -- Eric Lease Morgan
