MARC::Record and UTF-8 & Perl version

2005-03-08 Thread Ian . Hamilton
Hi Ed, > How would people feel about the next version of MARC-Record (perhaps > a v2.0) which handled utf8 properly and required a modern perl? Entirely agree with Michael Doran: Definitely a *good* thing. > Perhaps if people could respond to the list (or me if you prefer) with > the version

RE: MARC::Record and UTF-8 & related threads

2005-03-07 Thread Anne Highsmith
ord and modified it...". -- Michael # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian # University of Texas at Arlington # 817-272-5326 office # 817-688-1926 cell # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ > -Original Message- > From: Ed Summers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: M

Re: MARC::Record and UTF-8 & related threads

2005-03-07 Thread Ed Summers
Thanks for the details about your Perl versions Michael. On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:06:48AM -0600, Doran, Michael D wrote: > My understanding of Anne's posting was that the record she tested *did* > contain unicode: "I started with the Unicode version of the record and > modified it...". Yeah, I

RE: MARC::Record and UTF-8 & related threads

2005-03-07 Thread Doran, Michael D
Texas at Arlington # 817-272-5326 office # 817-688-1926 cell # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ > -Original Message- > From: Ed Summers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 8:37 AM > To: perl4lib@perl.org > Subject: Re: MARC::Record and

Re: MARC::Record and UTF-8 & related threads

2005-03-07 Thread Ed Summers
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:18:00AM -0500, Anne L. Highsmith wrote: > Here's my main question -- is that the principal > concern/question/problem, i.e. that directory lengths will not be > computed correctly using the existing MARC::Record module with a > Unicode record? Or is it only in certain sit

MARC::Record and UTF-8 & related threads

2005-03-04 Thread Anne L. Highsmith
(Apologies in advance if this ends up going out twice; I am resending from a different email account) In December and January several messages were sent to this list discussing aspects of the above topics. I was concerned about the discussion, because I do a lot of marc record processing for r

RE: MARC::Record and UTF-8

2005-01-07 Thread Bryan Baldus
Do you know if your solution will work with older (5.8.0 or 5.6.1) Perl versions? I'm limited (on my development/home machine) to 5.8.0a (MacPerl). I might be able to test MARC::File::XML, but I'm not sure, since I am unable to compile any modules relying upon C (the Mac Programmer's Workshop (MPW)

RE: MARC::Record and UTF-8 (fwd)

2005-01-07 Thread Reese, Terry
nstate.edu/~reeset/ ** >-Original Message- >From: Jackie Shieh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 8:18 AM >To: Reese, Terry >Subject: Re: MARC::Record and UTF-8 (fwd) > > >Terry, > >Do you want to answer this? > >--Jackie > > >

Re: MARC::Record and UTF-8

2005-01-07 Thread Mike Rylander
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:59:31 -0600, Bryan Baldus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you know if your solution will work with older (5.8.0 or 5.6.1) Perl > versions? I'm limited (on my development/home machine) to 5.8.0a (MacPerl). > I might be able to test MARC::File::XML, but I'm not sure, since I am

Re: MARC::Record and UTF-8

2005-01-07 Thread Mike Rylander
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:53:40 +0100, Ron Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 07:50 7/01/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Does anyone know of any work underway to adapt MARC::Record for utf-8 > >encoding ? I'm in the process of updating MARC::File::XML to support unicode. I was hoping to have t

RE: MARC::Record and UTF-8

2005-01-07 Thread Doran, Michael D
> ...the ILS can be upgraded to a new version and and > people can start using Unicode, not only for Western > European languages, but also for languages like Thai. This is not really apropos to the discussion at hand, but since Thai was mentioned I thought I would contribute my two cents on an i

RE: MARC::Record and UTF-8

2005-01-07 Thread Houghton,Andrew
> From: Ed Summers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 07 January, 2005 09:56 > To: perl4lib@perl.org > Subject: Re: MARC::Record and UTF-8 > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:13:08AM -0500, Houghton,Andrew wrote: > > This is not a Perl solution, but if you are just looki

Re: MARC::Record and UTF-8

2005-01-07 Thread Ed Summers
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:13:08AM -0500, Houghton,Andrew wrote: > This is not a Perl solution, but if you are just looking to convert > MARC-8 records to UTF-8 record you can use Terry Reese's MarcEdit > program. Does MarcEdit completely map MARC-8 to UTF-8? //Ed

Re: MARC::Record and UTF-8

2005-01-07 Thread Ed Summers
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:53:40AM +0100, Ron Davies wrote: > I will have a similar project in a few months' time, converting a whole > bunch of processing from MARC-8 to UTF-8. I would be very happy to assist > in testing or development of a UTF-8 capability for MARC::Record. Is the > problem l

RE: MARC::Record and UTF-8

2005-01-07 Thread Ron Davies
At 14:13 7/01/2005, Houghton,Andrew wrote: This is not a Perl solution, but if you are just looking to convert MARC-8 records to UTF-8 record you can use Terry Reese's MarcEdit program. Under its MARC Tools section it allows you to do batch conversions. Thanks, Andy. It has been a while since I l

RE: MARC::Record and UTF-8

2005-01-07 Thread Houghton,Andrew
>From: Ron Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 2:54 AM >Subject: Re: MARC::Record and UTF-8 > >At 07:50 7/01/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Does anyone know of any work underway to adapt MARC::Record for utf-8 >>encoding ? > >I wil

Re: MARC::Record and UTF-8

2005-01-06 Thread Ron Davies
At 07:50 7/01/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any work underway to adapt MARC::Record for utf-8 encoding ? I will have a similar project in a few months' time, converting a whole bunch of processing from MARC-8 to UTF-8. I would be very happy to assist in testing or development

MARC::Record and UTF-8

2005-01-06 Thread Ian . Hamilton
As I understand it MARC::Record cannot be used with utf-8 encoded MARC data (i.e. it is limited to MARC-8 encodings) Is this the case ? Does anyone know of any work underway to adapt MARC::Record for utf-8 encoding ? Ian PS We're in the process of migrating from a MARC21 MARC-8 ANSEL environmen