Net::Z3950 and diacritics

2003-12-16 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On 12/15/03 8:54 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In order to get the MARC records for my "catalog" I have been searching the > LOC catalog, identifying the record I desire, and using Net::Z3950 to download > the desired record via the MARC 001 tag. Tastes great. Less filling. >

Re: Net::Z3950 and diacritics

2003-12-16 Thread Tajoli Zeno
Hi, in fact the question is quite complex to explain, and I'm not sure that I can explain well. At 14.57 16/12/03, you wrote: This process works just fine for records that contain no diacritics, but when diacritics are in the records extra characters end up in my saved files, like this: 00901

Re: Net::Z3950 and diacritics

2003-12-16 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:52:56PM +0100, Tajoli Zeno wrote: > 1)When you call LOC without a specific character you recive data in MARC-8 > character set. > > 2) In MARC-8 character set a letter like "è" [e grave] is done with TWO > bytes one for the sign [the grave accent] and one for the lett

Re: Net::Z3950 and diacritics

2003-12-16 Thread Colin Campbell
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:52:56PM +0100, Tajoli Zeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) In MARC-8 character set a letter like "è" [e grave] is done with TWO > bytes one for the sign [the grave accent] and one for the letter [the > letter e]. > > 3)In the leader, position 0-4 you have the numbe

RE: :Z3950 and diacritics

2003-12-16 Thread Michael D Doran
First, we probably want to figure out what character set the records are encoded in as received from LOC. Since only the non-ASCII characters will give us a clue, we can look at the umlauted-u ("ü") in Dürer. Charset hex character(s) used to represent "ü" --- MARC-8 0xE8 0x7

MARC::Record v1.34

2003-12-16 Thread Andy Lester
The uploaded file MARC-Record-1.34.tar.gz has entered CPAN as file: $CPAN/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/MARC-Record-1.34.tar.gz The big change in this release is the ability to read from a pipe, or an output stream. In our case (at Follett Library Resources), we have thousands of MARC files t

Re: Net::Z3950 and diacritics

2003-12-16 Thread Timothy Prettyman
I don't see how you can get a result for your search if you're using @attr 1=7. 7 is the USE attribute for an ISBN search, and your term is the local system number, I think (use attribute=12) When I do that search (@attr 1=12 3118006) against the LC bib file, using Net::Z3950 in a program es

Re: Net::Z3950 and diacritics

2003-12-16 Thread Timothy Prettyman
(I'm sending this again, because I think my formatted record may have gotten messed up in the process of being cut/pasted. My aplogies.) I don't see how you can get a result for your search if you're using @attr 1=7. 7 is the USE attribute for an ISBN search, and your term is the local system