onday, May 14, 2007 9:56 AM
> To: perl4lib@perl.org
> Subject: RE: Working around a UTF8/Unicode encoding problem
>
> > From: Jason Ronallo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: 12 May, 2007 16:52
> > To: William Denton
> > Cc: perl4lib@perl.org
> > Subject: Re: Wor
On 12 May 2007, Jason Ronallo wrote:
Just a hunch: Did you by any chance use your Ruby script to grab this
record? If so a bug was recently fixed in ruby-marc for the conversion
of entities when saving in communications format. Upgrade the
ruby-marc gem, grab the record again and see what happen
> From: Jason Ronallo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 12 May, 2007 16:52
> To: William Denton
> Cc: perl4lib@perl.org
> Subject: Re: Working around a UTF8/Unicode encoding problem
>
> I can also see that this record is broken
> because the XML entity ' is in a MA
William,
U+00B9 is a superscript number one:
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00b9/index.htm
I've seen this happen to some dollar signs in records that have been
mangled. I can also see that this record is broken because the XML
entity ' is in a MARC communications format file.
Just a
I have a MARC file [1] that contains a record (ID number 4240822) with a
problem. I whipped up this script to have a look at things:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
my $oldmarc = shift;
die "Usage: $0 old.marc" unless defined $oldmarc;
use MARC::Batch;
my $batch = MARC::Batch->new('USMARC
