> > However, when I try to generate MARCXML output with following code the > > Arabic characters gets corrupted: > > > $xml = MARC::File::XML->out( $file ); > > my $record = MARC::Record->new(); > > ... > > $xml->write( $record ); > > ... > > $xml->close(); > > > I've tried setting the encoding in various ways without success, e.g.: > > => use MARC::File::XML ( BinaryEncoding => 'utf8', RecordFormat => > > 'USMARC' > > What is the value of you records leader position 9? If you have anything > else than 'a', MARC::File::XML->write method will transcode your biblio > records from marc8 to utf8 encoding. That's bad if your records are > already UTF-8 encoded. > > You can try forcing your records 9 position before writing them: > > my $leader = $record->leader; > substr($leader, 9, 1, 'a'); > $record->leader( $leader ); >
I had already hard-coded the position 9 in Leader as 'a' in all records. Little strange that MARC:File:USMARC and MARC:File:XML treat the same data (rather same MARC::Record object) differently. Saiful Amin +91-9343826438
