On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <emor...@nd.edu> wrote:

> Okay. How do I go about converting MARC-8 encoded records into UTF-8? I know 
> yaz-marcdump changes the encoding bit in MARC leaders. Does it also convert 
> MARC-8 characters to UTF-8? (I guess I could simply try it and see what 
> happens.)
>

Yes, it does.  It uses yaz-iconv.  Theoretically, you could wrap some
Perl module around that.  I've contemplated it for ruby-marc, but then
it always seems a lot easier to ignore it and delete any emails that
request it.

A whole lot easier.

-Ross.

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