> -----Original Message----- > From: Thomale, J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 29 September, 2005 11:05 > To: perl4lib@perl.org > Subject: RE: yet another character encoding question > > Right, that was my plan. Since latin-1 to UTF-8 isn't > difficult to do (using utf8::encode()), I figured that would > be the simplest solution. > Or am I wrong?
Is there a requirement to deliver the MARC records in MARC-8 encoding? If not, then use utf8::encode() to encode the Latin-1 to UTF-8 and create the MARC records with Leader/09 = "a". Andy.