Re: MARC::Charset and transcoding of MARC::Record objects

[bargioni]

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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Re: MARC::Charset and transcoding of MARC::Record objects

[Edward Summers]

On Sep 22, 2006, at 6:06 AM, Leif Andersson 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. If you  
do happen to do that please send me a patch :-)


I seem to recall someone on this list mentioning the path MARC  
Record (MARC8) -> MARCXML (UTF8) -> MARC Record (UTF8)
This trip involves, I'd guess, MARC::File::XML in addition to  
MARC::Charset


You could do that yeah...although it would be doing lots of  
unnecessary xml stuff and disk IO.


//Ed