Re: UTF-8 encoding errors

On 3/8/07, Ron Davies <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  Hi Mike,
>
>  Yeah, sorry, it sounds really strange to me too.  I have to say I am not
> responsible for the installation of Perl or any modules on our Sun server so
> that it's possible that something has got messed up there, but I can't
> really make any progress in that regard unless I can say that someone on
> another platform doesn't have the problem. On the other hand, for another

Heh ... I can confirm that we don't have this problem with Evergreen
on Linux using M::R 2.0 ... otherwise I'd be out of a job. :P

> client, also on Solaris, with a different ILS, I had some random problems
> that looked quite similar. Files were not so large for the other client, so
> maybe that's why they only seemed to crop up rarely.
>
>  I am writing now from my office, not my client's site, so I'll have to send
> you the files tomorrow. But just to give you a better sense of what I'm
> looking at, here's the attached document, which a Perl-knowledgeable
> colleague has already checked over for obvious errors.
>

I'm buried today anyway, but I'll try to take a look over the weekend
if you can get the MARC (and a minimal script that fails with those
records) to me ... off-list is fine if you'd rather not send it to
everone.

>  Thanks very much.

Hope I can help!

>
>  Ron
>
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>
>  At 02:02 8/03/2007, Mike Rylander wrote:
>
> 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.
>


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