Position Announcement: Evergreen Systems Developer

2008-09-25 Thread Bill Erickson
* Apologies for cross-posting * Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts / http://esilibrary.com Systems Developer, Library Automation Applications Does working with a small, agile team of software designers and developers to create unique and successful solutions to interesting proble

Regular Expression for non-Roman characters

2008-09-25 Thread Jacobs, Jane W
Hi folks, I'm wondering if anyone has codified a regular expression that would indicate the presence of non-Latin characters. I want to detect the presence of non-Roman letters in authority records. Currently Authorities with non-Roman forms of name place these in the 4XX fields. Our system can'

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