On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > Does the -t flag in yaz-marcdump tell the program to convert characters in > MARC records to specific character sets, or does merely change the value in a > MARC leader to denote the character set of the record as a whole? In other > words, will yaz-marcdump do its best to convert MARC-8 characters found in > MARC records into a UTF-8 characters?
yaz-marcdump -t tells the program to perform the conversion. It does *not* change the leader/09 value automatically - you need to do that using the -l flag. Mark A. Matienzo Digital Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives Yale University Library
