RE: yet another character encoding question

2005-09-29 Thread Thomale, J
> > Right, that was my plan. Since latin-1 to UTF-8 isn't > > difficult to do (using utf8::encode()), I figured that would > > be the simplest solution. > > Or am I wrong? > > Is there a requirement to deliver the MARC records in MARC-8 > encoding? If not, then use utf8::encode() to encode the Lat

RE: yet another character encoding question

2005-09-29 Thread Houghton,Andrew
> -Original Message- > From: Thomale, J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 29 September, 2005 11:05 > To: perl4lib@perl.org > Subject: RE: yet another character encoding question > > Right, that was my plan. Since latin-1 to UTF-8 isn't > difficult to do (using utf8::encode()), I figured

RE: yet another character encoding question

2005-09-29 Thread Thomale, J
Hi Michael, Thanks for your reply. > I believe that MARC::Charset only does MARC-8 to UTF-8 conversion and vice > versa, so won't be a solution for automating your Latin-1 to MARC-8 > conversion, unless you were planning to do Latin-1=>UTF-8=>MARC-8. Right, that was my plan. Since latin-1 to UTF

RE: yet another character encoding question

2005-09-29 Thread Doran, Michael D
Hi Jason, I believe that MARC::Charset only does MARC-8 to UTF-8 conversion and vice versa, so won't be a solution for automating your Latin-1 to MARC-8 conversion, unless you were planning to do Latin-1=>UTF-8=>MARC-8. A few years ago, I wrote an imperfect MARC-8 to Latin-1 character set co

yet another character encoding question

2005-09-29 Thread Thomale, J
Hello all, I'm brand new to this list, and I need some help with a particular issue. I searched through the mailing list archives but didn't find anything directly addressing this--despite the seeming popularity of questions about character sets--so I thought I'd ask. I've written a perl script t