ruby-marc does not have any capacity to convert MARC-8 in any ruby
interpreter: MRI, JRuby, Rubinius, whatever.
Given the amount of work required to include this (unless Mark
Matienzo feels like hacking into ruby-marc what he did for pymarc), I
think I'd need to see a really compelling need (that
I thought that marc-ruby did MARC8 already! Wait, does it just do it in
'native' ruby interpreter, but not in jruby?
I'm dealing with records in MARC8 now I think with marc-ruby, and it
looked like the non-roman characters were coming accross okay! I might
need to go investigate my setup furt
Hi Brendan:
Ahh the lovely MARC-8 :-)
It's a fair bit of effort I think. One approach could be to porting
the MARC8->Unicode functionality from pymarc [1,2]. It's only one-way,
but that's normally what most sane people want to do anyhow.
Another approach would be to look into wrapping yaz-iconv
