Jackie,
Out of curiosity, I looked briefly at the MARC record you provided, and
Tom is right. There is an e with an accent in the 505 that is UTF-8
encoded as 65 CC 81 (Unicode: 0065 0301). I also ran the script and it
ran without giving me the "wide character" message. As Tom said, if
you're usin
> I'm probably starting to sound nit-picky, but please
> understand that it's only because I think MARC::Charset is a
> great module and I'd like for more people to be using it. :-)
Let me second Michael's statement. A couple of months ago we tried
installing MARC::Charset and ran into exactly
> > Right, that was my plan. Since latin-1 to UTF-8 isn't
> > difficult to do (using utf8::encode()), I figured that would
> > be the simplest solution.
> > Or am I wrong?
>
> Is there a requirement to deliver the MARC records in MARC-8
> encoding? If not, then use utf8::encode() to encode the Lat
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your reply.
> I believe that MARC::Charset only does MARC-8 to UTF-8 conversion and
vice
> versa, so won't be a solution for automating your Latin-1 to MARC-8
> conversion, unless you were planning to do Latin-1=>UTF-8=>MARC-8.
Right, that was my plan. Since latin-1 to UTF
Hello all,
I'm brand new to this list, and I need some help with a particular
issue. I searched through the mailing list archives but didn't find
anything directly addressing this--despite the seeming popularity of
questions about character sets--so I thought I'd ask.
I've written a perl script t
