Hello, I would like to search the NLM with a Z39.50 Perl client. This is working quite well with one exception: I have not yet found a way to convert the charset to UTF-8. First I tried the standard Encode module because I thought it uses iconv and that should have a definition for ANSEL but I got an error message about unknown encoding. Then I tried MARC::Charset. That works somehow but has two problems: First the database is really huge (400 MB) but even more important it doesn't convert combining diakritics + base char to the combined character. So I still have two characters for e.g. the German umlauts. This might be correct UTF-8 but is not useable to present in (X)HTML. Is there any other option short of doing it by hand with lots of s/// for at least the most common combinations?
Thanks for any help -Michael
