Eric,
> How can I figure out whether or not a MARC record contains ONLY characters
> from the UTF-8 character set?
You can use a regex to check if a string is utf-8. There are various examples
floating around the internet. An example is the one here:
http://www.w3.org/International/questions
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> Put another way, how can I determine whether or not position #9 of a given
> MARC leader is accurate? If position #9 is an "a", then how can I read the
> balance of the record to determine whether or not all the characters really
>
helley
- Original Message -
> From: "Eric Lease Morgan"
> To: perl4lib@perl.org
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 2:11:26 PM
> Subject: Re: reading and writing of utf-8 with marc::batch [double encoding]
>
>
> On Mar 27, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Eric Lease Morgan
> wro
On Mar 27, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> When it calls as_usmarc, I think MARC::Batch tries to honor the value set in
> position #9 of the leader. In other words, if the leader is empty, then it
> tries to output records as MARC-8, and when the leader is a value of "a", it
> tr
On Mar 27, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> A number of people have alluded to the problem of double encoding, and I'm
> beginning to think this is true.
When it calls as_usmarc, I think MARC::Batch tries to honor the value set in
position #9 of the leader. In other words, if the
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> I have isolated a number of problem records. They all contain diacritics,
> but they do not have an "a" in position #9 of the leader --
> http://dh.crc.nd.edu/tmp/original.marc Can someone verify that the file
> contains UTF-8 cha
A number of people have alluded to the problem of double encoding, and I'm
beginning to think this is true.
I have isolated a number of problem records. They all contain diacritics, but
they do not have an "a" in position #9 of the leader --
http://dh.crc.nd.edu/tmp/original.marc Can someone
