On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Shelley Doljack wrote:
> The problem was I wasn't telling perl to output UTF-8. Now that I added
> binmode(FILE, ':utf8') to my script, the problem is fixed. However, it
> sounds like once I set binmode to UTF-8 everything will be interpreted as
> such, even when t
The problem was I wasn't telling perl to output UTF-8. Now that I added
binmode(FILE, ':utf8') to my script, the problem is fixed. However, it sounds
like once I set binmode to UTF-8 everything will be interpreted as such, even
when the record is in MARC-8. Is that right? So this means that I ca
I recently came across a nasty issue with MARC::Record to do with output of
Marc-8 encoded records. I was converting XML (which was in UTF-8) into MARC
records using MARC::Record and had initially, and successfully, got good UTF-8
encoded MARC records out at the end.
However, I then could not
I just recently came across this presentation which lays out pretty much all
the issues with Unicode in perl, and makes some recommendations for best
practices. You may find some general insight into the whole situation by going
over it.
http://www.slideshare.net/nickpatch/fundamental-unicode-a
