On 25/set/06, at 12:38, Edward Summers wrote:

How would you guys do to transcode a whole MARC record, contained in a MARC::Record object, from MARC8 to UTF8?

I'd probably extend marc8_to_utf8() in MARC::Charset so that it not only transcoded strings, but records as well. The function would essentially just iterate through a record transcoding each field/ subfield and building up a new record which it would return.

I consider it a very good and useful idea.
Thanks for your work.
Stefano
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