On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 09:14:50AM +0200, Emmanuel Di Pretoro wrote: > Hi, > > Currently I'm trying to convert an ISIS database to MARC21. So I use > Biblio::Isis and MARC::Record to do that. No problem with this conversion, > except for some weird character encoding problems. Some bibliographic > records are in written in french, and accentuated characters like 'é' are > display as '<82>'. > > I've tried to use some Encode::* modules (Encode, Encode::Guess, > Encode::Detec, Encode::First), but without success. > > Is there anybody who have this kind of problem? Is there a solution?
Biblio::Isis doesn't have any support for encoding. It will return content with original encoding from ISIS. This is intentional, because our local encoding was really wired. In our project WebPAC (which was reason to write Biblio::Isis in the first place :-) we are using Encode's from_to and/or decode to convert our local encoding to utf-8 which MARC::Record (2.0 and newer) handles well. See http://webpac.us/ for documentation or this snippet: http://svn.rot13.org/index.cgi/webpac2/view/trunk/lib/WebPAC/Output/MARC.pm p.s. WebPAC(2) is really universal conversion tool (data mangler :-) but it might be overkill for your purpose (or not). It also includes several DSL [domain specific languages] based on perl to massage data before producing output. HTH. -- Dobrica Pavlinusic 2share!2flame [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix addict. Internet consultant. http://www.rot13.org/~dpavlin
