RE: MARC::Record and UTF-8

2005-01-07 Thread Bryan Baldus
Do you know if your solution will work with older (5.8.0 or 5.6.1) Perl versions? I'm limited (on my development/home machine) to 5.8.0a (MacPerl). I might be able to test MARC::File::XML, but I'm not sure, since I am unable to compile any modules relying upon C (the Mac Programmer's Workshop (MPW)

RE: MARC::Record and UTF-8 (fwd)

2005-01-07 Thread Reese, Terry
>Does MarcEdit completely map MARC-8 to UTF-8? Ed, It maps all the codes found in the MARC-8 to Unicode XML mapping file -- as least, that's the source file and I've never had any complains that characters weren't being converted (save for a few characters that occasionally get used that are outs

Re: MARC::Record and UTF-8

2005-01-07 Thread Mike Rylander
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:59:31 -0600, Bryan Baldus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you know if your solution will work with older (5.8.0 or 5.6.1) Perl > versions? I'm limited (on my development/home machine) to 5.8.0a (MacPerl). > I might be able to test MARC::File::XML, but I'm not sure, since I am

Re: MARC::Record and UTF-8

2005-01-07 Thread Mike Rylander
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:53:40 +0100, Ron Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 07:50 7/01/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Does anyone know of any work underway to adapt MARC::Record for utf-8 > >encoding ? I'm in the process of updating MARC::File::XML to support unicode. I was hoping to have t

RE: MARC::Record and UTF-8

2005-01-07 Thread Doran, Michael D
> ...the ILS can be upgraded to a new version and and > people can start using Unicode, not only for Western > European languages, but also for languages like Thai. This is not really apropos to the discussion at hand, but since Thai was mentioned I thought I would contribute my two cents on an i

RE: MARC::Record and UTF-8

2005-01-07 Thread Houghton,Andrew
> From: Ed Summers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 07 January, 2005 09:56 > To: perl4lib@perl.org > Subject: Re: MARC::Record and UTF-8 > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:13:08AM -0500, Houghton,Andrew wrote: > > This is not a Perl solution, but if you are just looking to convert > > MARC-8 records

Re: MARC::Record and UTF-8

2005-01-07 Thread Ed Summers
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:13:08AM -0500, Houghton,Andrew wrote: > This is not a Perl solution, but if you are just looking to convert > MARC-8 records to UTF-8 record you can use Terry Reese's MarcEdit > program. Does MarcEdit completely map MARC-8 to UTF-8? //Ed

Re: MARC::Record and UTF-8

2005-01-07 Thread Ed Summers
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:53:40AM +0100, Ron Davies wrote: > I will have a similar project in a few months' time, converting a whole > bunch of processing from MARC-8 to UTF-8. I would be very happy to assist > in testing or development of a UTF-8 capability for MARC::Record. Is the > problem l

RE: MARC::Record and UTF-8

2005-01-07 Thread Ron Davies
At 14:13 7/01/2005, Houghton,Andrew wrote: This is not a Perl solution, but if you are just looking to convert MARC-8 records to UTF-8 record you can use Terry Reese's MarcEdit program. Under its MARC Tools section it allows you to do batch conversions. Thanks, Andy. It has been a while since I l

RE: MARC::Record and UTF-8

2005-01-07 Thread Houghton,Andrew
>From: Ron Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 2:54 AM >Subject: Re: MARC::Record and UTF-8 > >At 07:50 7/01/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Does anyone know of any work underway to adapt MARC::Record for utf-8 >>encoding ? > >I will have a similar project in a few m