That fixed the problem, going back a version. That will teach me not to use a beta version for production.
Thanks to all who took the time to help me with this, especially Ed. John On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 19:57:26 -0600 Ed Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 05:47:23PM -0600, John Hammer wrote: > > MARC::Record version 1.39_01. Using diff there is no difference in the > > files when using Perl to read in and write out the data. > > Can you try downgrading to v1.38? v1.39_01 has some experimental utf8 > handling code in it which was released as a beta to CPAN. > > //Ed