Re: [RDA-L] Copyright sign

[Ed Jones]

The copyright sign is part of the Extended Latin (ANSEL) character set, which 
is one of the MARC-8 character sets. 
http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/specchartables.html 

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[mailto:rd...@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] On Behalf Of J. McRee Elrod
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 1:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Copyright sign

Concerning the copyright sign required by RDA.

Our quality control librarian writes:

"... TLC's ITS does not have a copyright sign in the special
"characters page. I suspect that is because it is not one of the
"characters encompassed by MARC-8 coding. (I may be wrong).

"Now that would be an interesting situation for a while, because it
would mean that all records would have to be distributed in Unicode or
UTF-8 rather than MARC-8. That will affect more than just us. Aren't
most downloaded records still encoded in MARC-8? LC, Amicus, OCLC,
etc."


We have clients who absolutely refuse to accept records in Unicode.
This is one RDA provision we will probably have to ignore.


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