I've just checked the archive and seen this thread and am having a similar problem, a badly encoded character is causing a while loop through MARC::Batch->next to crash out with:
utf8 "\x87" does not map to Unicode at /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Encode.pm line 173.
I've tried pasting Al's modified decode subroutine and package to the script, but it is still failing. One of the offending records is isolated and attached.
Any suggestions welcome with regards to further modifying the sub or alternatives to MARC::Batch->next would be welcome. For the scope of the project, I'm limited to large batch files of Marc21.
With thanks Ed -- Edmund Chamberlain Systems Development Librarian Electronic Services and Systems Cambridge University Library West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR tel: (+44) 01223 747437 fax: (+44) 01223 333160 email: em...@cam.ac.ukTry LibrarySearch at http://search.lib.cam.ac.uk - a new way to discover Cambridge Library Collections
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