Was not talking about MarcXML in this thread, shifted to talking about
Marc21 binary, changed the subject and started a new thread accordingly.
On 4/18/2012 10:23 AM, LeVan,Ralph wrote:
In fact, I worry that the standard may pre-date UTF-8, with it's
reference to "UCS" --- if I understand things right, at one point
there
was only one unicode encoding, called "UCS", which is basically a
backwards-compatible subset of what became UTF-16.
So I worry the standard really "means" UCS/UTF-16.
Now you're just trying to scare yourself. I've never seen UTF-16
MarcXML. I've never seen anything but UTF-8 encoded MarcXML.
Ralph
