2008/9/9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Jeffrey, > > In a message dated 9/9/2008 10:09:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> I was looking over this perl module and am curious if there is an support >> for MARC to Unicode character conversions. A prompt response would be much >> appreciated. > > Unicode was not supported in the original MARC.pm and related code. We had > limited XML support and some character mappings to maintain compatibility with > the older MS-DOS based USMARC programs. I think the later MARC::Record family > of modules does have at least some Unicode support. > > The place to ask is the perl_for_librarians mailing list, so I have copied my > reply to them.
In a nutshell, MARC8 to UTF8 (Unicode) conversions are supported by MARC::Charset (http://search.cpan.org/dist/MARC-Charset/) -- Dan Scott Laurentian University
