William,
U+00B9 is a superscript number one:
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00b9/index.htm
I've seen this happen to some dollar signs in records that have been
mangled. I can also see that this record is broken because the XML
entity ' is in a MARC communications format file.
Just a
I have a MARC file [1] that contains a record (ID number 4240822) with a
problem. I whipped up this script to have a look at things:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
my $oldmarc = shift;
die "Usage: $0 old.marc" unless defined $oldmarc;
use MARC::Batch;
my $batch = MARC::Batch->new('USMARC
