re: Invalid UTF-8 characters causing MARC::Record crash.

Firstly, hello! Its my first time posting and possibly somewhat 
predictably with a call for help with Unicode stuff.

I've just checked the archive and seen this thread and am having a 
similar problem, a badly encoded character is causing a while loop 
through MARC::Batch->next to crash out with:

utf8 "\x87" does not map to Unicode at 
/usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Encode.pm line 173.

I've tried pasting Al's modified decode subroutine and package to the 
script, but it is still failing. One of the offending records is 
isolated and attached.

Any suggestions welcome with regards to further modifying the sub or 
alternatives to MARC::Batch->next would be welcome. For the scope of the 
project, I'm limited to large batch files of Marc21.

With thanks

Ed



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