Re: Character sets

2004-11-24 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 08:22:47AM +, Ashley Sanders wrote: > Is MARC::Record trying to treat than as Unicode when in fact they > are MARC-8? MARC::Record currently does no transformation of character sets that I'm aware of. There is a completely separate module MARC::Charset which provides

Business::ISBN grant

2004-11-24 Thread Ed Summers
The author of Business::ISBN is looking for a grant from the Perl foundation to update the module to work with 13 digit ISBNs. Business::ISBN is an essential tool for working with ISBNs. If you use the module brian would appreciate it if you could send him a note about how you are using it. Any tes

RE: Character sets

2004-11-24 Thread Jacobs, Jane W
Hi John, You might consider whether your problem involves the fact that most Diacritics involve a shift from Basic Latin (ASCII) to Extended Latin and then back. This is accomplished with an escape sequence. I'm a little fuzzy on the details of how this works but the raw MARC looks something

Re: Character sets

2004-11-24 Thread Ashley Sanders
Ed Summers wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 04:10:05PM -0600, John Hammer wrote: I have a character problem that I hope someone can help me with. In a MARC record I am modifying using MARC::Record, one of the names contains letters with diacritics. Looking at the name with a hex editor, it gives, wit