On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Shelley Doljack <sdolj...@stanford.edu>wrote:
> The problem was I wasn't telling perl to output UTF-8. Now that I added > binmode(FILE, ':utf8') to my script, the problem is fixed. However, it > sounds like once I set binmode to UTF-8 everything will be interpreted as > such, even when the record is in MARC-8. Is that right? So this means that > I can only use my script with a file of records where all of them are > encoded in UTF-8. If I want to run the script against a file with all > MARC-8 encoding, then I'd need to remove the binmode line. > Sometimes it's easier to use the yaz-marcdump utility for MARC-8 to UTF-8 conversion (it's much faster): yaz-marcdump -f MARC-8 -t UTF-8 -o marc marc21.in >marc21.out http://www.indexdata.com/yaz/doc/yaz-marcdump.html Best regards, Saiful Amin DRTC, Bangalore
