On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:20:55PM -0500, Jackie Shieh wrote:
> MARC::Field->new('710','2','', a=>'Bibliotheque nationale de france.')
> ^
I'm assuming that you want a combining acute on the e, and that you want to
encode with MARC-8 since UTF-8 in MARC data hasn't hit the mainstream yet...
eventhough I've heard OCLC is converting all their MARC data to UTF-8.
This is kind of a pain, but here's how you could do it. You need to
escape to ExtendedLatin, add the combining acute, escape back to
BasicLatin, and then put the 'e'. Or in code:
# building blocks for escaping G0 to ExtendedLatin and
# back to BasicLatin, details at:
# http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/speccharmarc8.html
$escapeToExtendedLatin = chr(0x1B).chr(0x28).chr(0x21).chr(0x45);
$escapeToBasicLatin = chr(0x1B).chr(0x28).chr(0x52);
# acute in the G0 register is chr(0x62) from the table at:
# http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/codetables/45.html
$acute = $escapeToExtendedLatin.chr(0x62).$escapeToBasicLatin;
# now make the field
$field = MARC::Field->new( '710', '2', '',
a => 'Biblioth'.$acute.'eque nationale de france.' );
This is long because I wanted to explain what was going on...I imagine
it could be compressed nicely...maybe
Please give this a try on one record and make sure your catalog displays
it properly before doing anything drastic to your data. Like I needed
to mention that :-)
//Ed
