On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 04:10:05PM -0600, John Hammer wrote: > I have a character problem that I hope someone can help me with. In a MARC > record I am modifying using MARC::Record, one of the names contains letters > with diacritics. Looking at the name with a hex editor, it gives, with hex > values in curly brackets,"Bis{e5}a{f2}t{e5}i, Mu{f2}hammad." After running > through MARC::Record, the name now appears as "Bis{ef bf bd}a{ef bf bd}t{ef > bf bd}i, Mu{ef bf bd}hammad."
That's pretty odd. Any chance you could send me the MARC record? At this time MARC::Record does not play nicely with Unicode (UTF8). http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=3707 //Ed