On Monday, March 03, 2008 3:16 PM, Michael Doran wrote:
>I looked through the MARC::Record CHANGES file [3]. Although there are
some enhancements/fixes regarding the use of UTF-8, I don't see anything
that explicitely states that more current versions of MARC::Record now
compute the record length
I have been pointing at a general issue with MARC::Record and perl IO.
Your case may come across other issues as well.
You have not provided any code, so I don't know how you ended up with that
record you have attached.
The only thing I can say with any certainty is the same as marcdump says:
"In
> I was under the impression that the MARC record length in the
> Leader was the record length in bytes rather than the number
> of characters.
According to this source, the Leader record length is in bytes:
MARC Leader > record length = "Five numeric characters equal
to the total number o
Hi Leif,
I really appreciate you taking a look at this and responding. Although I
consider myself somewhat knowledgeable about character sets, I still find these
kinds of problems to be confusing.
> In this case the leader and actual length will not agree, as
> your utf8 characters have turne
