I thought that marc-ruby did MARC8 already! Wait, does it just do it in
'native' ruby interpreter, but not in jruby?
I'm dealing with records in MARC8 now I think with marc-ruby, and it
looked like the non-roman characters were coming accross okay! I might
need to go investigate my setup further now....
Jonathan
Ed Summers wrote:
Hi Brendan:
Ahh the lovely MARC-8 :-)
It's a fair bit of effort I think. One approach could be to porting
the MARC8->Unicode functionality from pymarc [1,2]. It's only one-way,
but that's normally what most sane people want to do anyhow.
Another approach would be to look into wrapping yaz-iconv [3] from
IndexData which provides much more (and faster) MARC related character
mapping facilities.
If you just want to get something done without extending ruby-marc you
can pre-process your data with yaz-marcdump and then throw it at
ruby-marc. Or perhaps if you are in jruby-land you could use marc4j
which has MARC-8 support.
I've cc'ed code4lib since someone else might have some better ideas.
Thanks for writing.
//Ed
[1]
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ehs-pobox/pymarc/dev/annotate/head%3A/pymarc/marc8.py
[2]
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ehs-pobox/pymarc/dev/annotate/head%3A/pymarc/marc8_mapping.py
[3] http://www.indexdata.com/yaz/doc/yaz-iconv.html
[4] http://marc4j.tigris.org/
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Brendan Boesen <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Guys,
I guess this is the 'bug the authors if you need it' email.
I'm trying to parse a MARC record and it contains Chinese characters. From
the leader:
01051cam 2200265 a 4504
it looks like the record uses MARC8 encoding.
I'm investigating a way to get a Unicode encoded one but that may not work
out. What sort of effort do you think is involved in adding MARC8 support
into marc-ruby? (And is there anything I could do to help with that?)
Regards,
Brendan Boesen
National Library of Australia
