Re: MARC::Charset 1.34

2013-02-11 Thread Leif Andersson
It gunzips fine, but then there seems to be something wrong with the tar file... /Leif Andersson Stockholm University Library

Re: MARC::Charset 1.34

2013-02-11 Thread Leif Andersson
Till: Leif Andersson Kopia: perl4lib Ämne: Re: MARC::Charset 1.34 Hi, On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Leif Andersson leif.anders...@sub.su.semailto:leif.anders...@sub.su.se wrote: It gunzips fine, but then there seems to be something wrong with the tar file... Could you elaborate

Re: MARC::Charset 1.34

2013-02-11 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Leif Andersson leif.anders...@sub.su.sewrote: Corrupt tar file RESOLVED. Thanks for the update. I'm inclined to agree with your guess that a mirror was corrupt. Out of curiosity, are you using ActiveState or Strawberry? Regards, Galen -- Galen

Re: MARC::Charset 1.33 released

2011-08-05 Thread Ed Summers
Galen, thanks very much for continuing to develop MARC::Charset. You should feel free to update the Makefile.PL and README to list you as the author now, since you have taken an active role in maintaining it. One of the most gratifying parts of my work as a software developer has been seeing

RE: MARC::Charset 'utf8_to_marc8'

2007-09-18 Thread Doran, Michael D
Hi Laurence, I'm trying to create MARC records from serials data exported from SFX, using MARC::Charset version 0.98 to convert UTF-8 strings to MARC-8. It seems to be failing on extended latin characters like U+00C5 CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE The encoding, U+00C5 (CAPITAL LETTER A

RE: MARC::Charset question

2007-05-18 Thread Doran, Michael D
Hi Michael, An example is the author (personal name) of the book that can be found at http://catalog.loc.gov/ by searching for ISBN 5040039875 (I'm guessing the fact that the website appears to be displaying a corrupted name may be part of the problem here). The Library of Congress

Re: MARC::Charset

2007-03-14 Thread Henri-Damien LAURENT
Doran, Michael D a écrit : Hi Henri, Although in my email client, the character in question appears as a MICRO SIGN (µ), I am assuming that it is actually meant to be a LOWERCASE DIGRAPH AE (æ) since that is consistent with the Latin vernacular text in your record. In MARC-8, the

Re: MARC::Charset

2007-03-14 Thread Ashley Sanders
Your MARC records appear to be encoded in MARC-8 as evidenced by ergáo in which the combining accent character comes before the character to be modified. I.e. the byte string that displays as ergáo in your email would display as ergò (with a Latin small letter o with grave) in a MARC-8 aware

RE: MARC::Charset

2007-03-14 Thread Doran, Michael D
: Henri-Damien LAURENT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 4:18 AM To: Doran, Michael D; perl4lib Subject: Re: MARC::Charset Doran, Michael D a écrit : Hi Henri, Although in my email client, the character in question appears as a MICRO SIGN (µ), I am assuming

RE: MARC::Charset

2007-03-14 Thread Doran, Michael D
, Systems Librarian # University of Texas at Arlington # 817-272-5326 office # 817-688-1926 mobile # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ -Original Message- From: Ashley Sanders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 4:59 AM Cc: perl4lib Subject: Re: MARC

Re: MARC::Charset

2007-03-14 Thread Ashley Sanders
Michael, So, basically, you either need prior knowledge about the actual character encoding used, or you have to test. Testing for UTF-8 is fairly straightforward... How are you testing for UTF-8? There's a handy perl regexp on the W3C web site at:

Re: MARC::Charset and transcoding of MARC::Record objects

2006-09-25 Thread bargioni
On 25/set/06, at 12:38, Edward Summers wrote: How would you guys do to transcode a whole MARC record, contained in a MARC::Record object, from MARC8 to UTF8? I'd probably extend marc8_to_utf8() in MARC::Charset so that it not only transcoded strings, but records as well. The function

Re: MARC::Charset problem

2006-06-27 Thread moconnor59
Edward Summers wrote: Perhaps when you are writing out your data you aren't preparing the filehandle for utf8? - you're right (as printing to STDOUT and using binmode() shows), however I got confused because I'm actually trying to save the transcoded data in a Berkeley-db file (via DB_File.pm)

Re: MARC::Charset problem

2006-06-22 Thread Edward Summers
On Jun 22, 2006, at 5:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using MARC::Charset::marc8_to_utf8() v0.95 to transcode some Library of Congress data to utf8, however I'm finding a problem with character 'ø' (hex 0xB2 - lowercase scandinavian o / latin small letter o with stroke), this character is

Re: MARC::Charset testing

2005-12-28 Thread Edward Summers
On Dec 28, 2005, at 8:25 PM, Bryan Baldus wrote: I was able to successfully compile and test MARC::Charset v. 0.8 from CPAN with the following minor modifications, while using MacPerl 5.8.0a2 on MacOS 9.2.2: Thanks for trying it out and for emailing the list. If anyone else is