Hi Matthew,
Thanks for the advice. For this particular script, I'm not doing any data
manipulation, so using :raw is probably the approach I want to take. I'm just
feeding my script a list of record IDs and a MARC file in order to pull out
records that have the record ID I'm looking for.
Thank
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:25:55AM -0400, Smith,Devon wrote:
> 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
> goin
Hi Shelley,
Just as another option: you don't necessarily need to write a new module to do
this. I have a similar situation (verifying the presence of an 856 field(s) as
well as other fields). I just use the MARC::File::USMARC module to read through
each record in the .mrc file and look for the
> -Original Message-
> From: Shelley Doljack [mailto:sdolj...@stanford.edu]
> Sent: 31 July 2012 20:18
>
> 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
