> > 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". Yes--we'll be importing them into OCLC using Connexion, and OCLC doesn't support UTF-8 yet. Just to make sure, I went ahead and tried it and got a system error.
Thanks for the suggestion.... Jason Thomale
