Re: UTF-8 encoding errors

On 3/7/07, Ron Davies <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip]
> There is nothing wrong with the UTF-8 encoding in the input data. The data
> displays fine in the ILS, and when I hand check the coding in the MARC
> record, it's correct.
>
> What's more, if I take a _smaller_ subset of records (say about 50 records)
> for my input file, all the data gets printed with no error message and with
> the correct characters in the output. Then again, if I take a slightly
> large subset, I get errors again, but not necessarily the same ones with
> the same records.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas about what's going on here? I have various data
> files and outputs if anybody wants to take a closer look.

That is approximately the strangest thing I've ever heard in relation
to MARC::Record...  Do you have any single record that reliably fails?
 I'd be very interested in seeing th smallest possible test that dies
reliably.

>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Ron
>
> Ron Davies
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