>I sure hope you meant upgrading to Perl 5.8.2 (or higher) rather than downgrading to >MARC::Record 1.39_02. ;-)
Michael, I wish (:->)! Unfortunately, I'm stuck with Perl 5.8.0 because my VPS (virtual private server) at Apollo doesn't offer 5.8.2 - yet. Oh well. I had been succesfully using MARC::Charset with MARC::Record 1.39_2 up until my web site implosion, and the Unicode was working fine, including the marc8 -> utf8 conversions from Marc records and their subsequent display in browsers. So there is hope! But, yes, I see the need to get to 5.8.2 asap! - Chris