This is not a perl suggestion, but I have had good results
with:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml
java marc/xml tools which, I believe, do marc8<-->utf-8 mapping.
Rick
At 11:25 AM 9/29/2005 -0500, Thomale, J wrote:
> > Right, that was my plan. Since latin-1 to UTF-8 isn't
> > difficult to d
> > 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
> -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 (usi
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
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
