Eric, > How can I figure out whether or not a MARC record contains ONLY characters > from the UTF-8 character set?
You can use a regex to check if a string is utf-8. There are various examples floating around the internet. An example is the one here: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-forms-utf-8 You'll need to add the MARC control characters ^_, ^^, and ^] to the ASCII part of the expression in the above page. (I think the w3c example is aimed at XML1.0 in which the MARC control characters are not allowed.) Ashley. -- Ashley Sanders a.sand...@manchester.ac.uk http://copac.ac.uk -- A Mimas service funded by JISC at the University of Manchester
