Hi John, You might consider whether your problem involves the fact that most Diacritics involve a shift from Basic Latin (ASCII) to Extended Latin and then back. This is accomplished with an escape sequence. I'm a little fuzzy on the details of how this works but the raw MARC looks something like this: Bisåaòtåi, Muòhammad
Check out: http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/specchartables.html And more specifically: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/codetables/42.html http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/codetables/45.html Another possibility is that you are working with G1 and the program is looking for G0 character sets or vice versa. It looks like your bracketed characters: {e5} etc. are G1, not G0. I'm no great programmer (all right, no programmer at all really) but my experience is that G0 seems to be the preferred. I hope some of that might be helpful. JJ **Views expressed by the author do not necessarily represent those of the Queens Library.** Jane Jacobs Asst. Coord., Catalog Division Queens Borough Public Library 89-11 Merrick Blvd. Jamaica, NY 11432 tel.: (718) 990-0804 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX. (718) 990-8566 -----Original Message----- From: John Hammer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Character sets I apologize if this is not the correct list to ask this question. I'm at a loss, however, to know where to ask. 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." Does this have anything to do with Perl? Or is it more properly the way Linux (I'm using RedHat) is set up on my machine? Any help would be appreciated. -- ******************************************** John C. Hammer, MMus, MLIS Automation Librarian Library and Media Services San Antonio College 1001 Howard St. San Antonio, TX 78212 (210)733-2669 (v) (210)733-2597 (f) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************************************
