RE: Regular Expression for non-Roman characters

2008-10-02 Thread Jacobs, Jane W
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RE: Regular Expression for non-Roman characters

2008-09-25 Thread Doran, Michael D
Hi Jane, In a MARC-8 character set environment, I would assume that the key to detecting non-Latin characters would be the presence of an escape sequence to indicate a switch to an alternate character set (e.g. Arabic, Greek, Cyrillic, etc) [1]. Everything from that point on would be non-Latin