On Mar 27, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <emor...@nd.edu> wrote:
> A number of people have alluded to the problem of double encoding, and I'm > beginning to think this is true. When it calls as_usmarc, I think MARC::Batch tries to honor the value set in position #9 of the leader. In other words, if the leader is empty, then it tries to output records as MARC-8, and when the leader is a value of "a", it tries to encode the data as UTF-8. If I employ binmode( OUTFILE, ":utf8"), and the output is already UTF-8, then double encoding happens. To test this theory, I fixed a number records in my batch. Specifically, I inserted the letter "a" in position #9 of the leader. I then ran my processing file WITHOUT the employment of binmode, and my output was correct. For example, look at all the glorious characters in the following URL: http://www.catholicresearch.net/vufind/Record/undmarc_001906501 -- Eric Lease Morgan Hesburgh Libraries University of Notre Dame 574/631-8604
