Re: MARC.pm - Perl extension to manipulate MAchine Readable Cataloging records.

[email protected]
Newsgroups perl.perl4lib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Jeffrey,

In a message dated 9/9/2008 10:09:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> I was looking over this perl module and am curious if there is an support 
> for MARC to Unicode character conversions.  A prompt response would be much 
> appreciated.

Unicode was not supported in the original MARC.pm and related code. We had 
limited XML support and some character mappings to maintain compatibility with 
the older MS-DOS based USMARC programs. I think the later MARC::Record family 
of modules does have at least some Unicode support.

The place to ask is the perl_for_librarians mailing list, so I have copied my 
reply to them.

-bill



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