Jackie, Out of curiosity, I looked briefly at the MARC record you provided, and Tom is right. There is an e with an accent in the 505 that is UTF-8 encoded as 65 CC 81 (Unicode: 0065 0301). I also ran the script and it ran without giving me the "wide character" message. As Tom said, if you're using an older version of Perl (or MARC::Record, perhaps), then that would explain it.
Jason Thomale Metadata Librarian Texas Tech University Libraries -----Original Message----- From: Thomas McNeely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 12:52 PM To: Jackie Shieh; perl4lib@perl.org Subject: RE: Wide character It didn't do this to me when I ran it. I'm only guessing, but it kinda sounds like it gagged on a unicode character, maybe. Are you using Perl 5.8.x? I think unicode support was only introduced in Perl 5.6 and considerably improved in 5.8. Maybe also check for the latest version of MARC::Record. Good luck, Tom McNeely Western Washington University Libraries -----Original Message----- From: Jackie Shieh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 7:34 AM To: perl4lib@perl.org Subject: Wide character I ran the attached script against a USMARC record and MARC::Record responded with Wide character in print at 1test.pl line 119. Line 119 is: print OUT $record->as_usmarc(); What does it mean? Thank you for any help you can provide! Regards, --Jackie |Jackie Shieh |Special Projects & Collections Team |Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library |University of Michigan |920 North University |Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205 |Phone: 734.936.2401 FAX: 734.615.9788 |E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
