Re: Character set tests [was MARC::Charset]

2007-03-15 Thread Ashley Sanders
Michael, In a MARC UCS/Unicode UTF-8 environment, the Esc (0x1B) character doesn't serve any purpose Correct re. the Esc character. The presence of an Esc is probably a good indication that the record is in MARC-8. So, I'm wondering if for MARC record testing, it would make sense to tighten

Dumb question about utf-8 handling

2007-03-15 Thread Gene Damon
Been using marc.pm for some time to do a "bunch-o-stuff," but haven't had to deal with unicode problems until now. Couple of basic questions. 1. If I use the "$record->encoding()" call, is it simply checking for the "a" in leader position 9? That is, it is not doing anything more complica

Google Summer of Code Opportunity

2007-03-15 Thread Joshua M. Ferraro
Hi all, Just a heads up to the perl4lib community that LibLime was selected as a mentor for the Google Summer of Code program. We've got a few ideas defined already, but are certainly open to additional suggestions: http://wiki.liblime.com/doku.php?id=googlesummerofcodeideas So if you've got a