On Dec 28, 2005, at 8:25 PM, Bryan Baldus wrote:
I was able to successfully compile and test MARC::Charset v. 0.8
from CPAN with the following minor modifications, while using
MacPerl 5.8.0a2 on MacOS 9.2.2:
Thanks for trying it out and for emailing the list. If anyone else is
interested in MARC::Charset give the new version a try. I attempted
to use AnyDBM_File for generic access to the various available db
drivers...however this didn't prove to be as portable as I
wanted...and it could theoretically cause MARC::Charset to break if
new db drivers are installed after MARC::Charset.
Anyhow, this new version of MARC::Charset uses the XML mapping file
from the LoC. It also uses Unicode::Normalize for decomposing
characters in the utf8->marc8 translation.
The API is now driven by two functions, which in turn use a variety
of objects under the covers--which seems to be an improvement to me.
use MARC::Charset;
print MARC::Charset::marc8_to_utf8($marc8);
print MARC::Charset::utf8_to_marc8($utf8);
I'm interested in any feedback you might have. Next up is to get
MARC::File::XML using the new functions.
//Ed
