RE: :Z3950 and diacritics

2003-12-16 Thread Michael D Doran
First, we probably want to figure out what character set the records are encoded in as received from LOC. Since only the non-ASCII characters will give us a clue, we can look at the umlauted-u ("ü") in Dürer. Charset hex character(s) used to represent "ü" --- MARC-8 0xE8 0x7

RE: Displaying diacritics in a terminal vs. a browser

2004-07-06 Thread Michael D Doran
Hi Andy, > From: Houghton,Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It just so happens that I have recently been converting > MARC-XML to RDF. The RDF specification mandates Unicode > Normal form C, which means that the base character and the > diacritic are combined. That's rather unfortunate, s

RE: Displaying diacritics in a terminal vs. a browser

2004-07-06 Thread Michael D Doran
> MARC-XML uses Unicode Normal form D, which means that the base > character is separate from the diacritic. I am not familiar with the MARC-XML specifications, so at the risk of embarrasing myself would it be correct to posit that it may not be that MARC-XML uses Unicode Normal form D, so much as

RE: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

2004-08-05 Thread Michael D Doran
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Net::Z3950, OPAC record syntax & multiple MFHD 866

2004-08-18 Thread Michael D Doran
Please excuse the cross-posting (perl4lib & Net-z3950). I am working with a Perl script designed to query our catalog via Net::Z3950 and retrieve a journal record. The OPAC record syntax is specified because the ultimate point of the script [1] is to parse the journal holdings to determine if a p

RE: Net::Z3950, OPAC record syntax & multiple MFHD 866 - SOLVED

2004-08-18 Thread Michael D Doran
I have been informed that this is a Voyager ILMS Z39.50 server bug. (Thanks Sandy!) Sorry for the false alarm... didn't mean to cast any aspersions on Net::Z3950! -- Michael > -Original Message- > From: Michael D Doran > Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 11:23 AM