On May 2, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Mark A. Matienzo wrote: >> Does the -t flag in yaz-marcdump tell the program to convert characters in >> MARC records to specific character sets, or does merely change the value in >> a MARC leader to denote the character set of the record as a whole? In other >> words, will yaz-marcdump do its best to convert MARC-8 characters found in >> MARC records into a UTF-8 characters? > > yaz-marcdump -t tells the program to perform the conversion. It does > *not* change the leader/09 value automatically - you need to do that > using the -l flag.
This is what I was hoping. Thank you. -- Eric Morgan