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

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