Michael,
In a MARC UCS/Unicode UTF-8 environment, the Esc (0x1B) character doesn't serve
any purpose
Correct re. the Esc character. The presence of an Esc is probably a good
indication that the record is in MARC-8.
So, I'm wondering if for MARC record testing, it would make sense to tighten up
the ASCII
part of the regexp a bit to this:
[\x1D-\x7E]
That would almost certainly do. I don't think I've ever seen a newline
or a tab in a MARC
record. However, knowing the amount of c**p we do get in records, it
wouldn't surprise me
if one did appear somewhere.
Ashley.
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