Oops, that's the second time today I've inadvertantly sent an email message (some keystroke combination from vi I think).
The reference was: [1] The exception to this is if you had previously escaped to an alternate character set (such as Arablic or Greek) and desired to return to Extended Latin as either GO or G1. -- Michael # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian # University of Texas at Arlington # 817-272-5326 office # 817-688-1926 cell # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Doran, Michael D > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 1:03 PM > To: perl4lib@perl.org > Subject: RE: inserting diacrtics > > > You need to escape to ExtendedLatin, add the combining > acute, escape back to > > BasicLatin, and then put the 'e'. Or in code: > > Extended Latin (as G1) is part of the MARC-8 default > character set and shouldn't require any escape sequences [1]. > I think all Jackie needs to do is add the combining grave character. > > -- Michael > > # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian > # University of Texas at Arlington > # 817-272-5326 office > # 817-688-1926 cell > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] > # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ed Summers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 11:30 AM > > To: perl4lib@perl.org > > Subject: Re: inserting diacrtics > > > > 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 > > >
