Do you do sometimes deal with MARC in the MARC8 character encoding? Do
you deal with software that converts from MARC8 to UTF8?
Maybe sometimes you've seen weird escape sequences that look like HTML
or XML character references, like, say #x200F;.
You, like me, might wonder what the heck
Yeah -- this has been part of the MARC standard for quite some time
(2004?)...LC added it as a way to protect round trip ability. MarcEdit has
supported this for years -- it's actually one of the questions that I have to
answer occasionally when people translate UTF8 code outside of the MARC8
So be warned, you may need to add this to your software too.
One of these that may cause problems in some systems (including the ones we
use; hopefully our customers' systems deal with it more appropriately) is the
character used in the middle of [1], the Extended Roman alif character
which
