[Koha-devel] Re: MARC character encoding

[paul POULAIN]

Ed Summers a écrit:

It's trully a pain...

In MARC21, the "à" is coded \xe1\x61.
In UNIMARC, it's coded... \xc1\x61
And that's the same for all "escaped" characters :-((((((((

Worst than this...
The \xe1 character in UNIMARC means... Æ, so it's possible to find 
\xe1\x61 in UNIMARC, it means Æa
It's really a nightmare to manage !!!

I end with a question : is there in a MARC record a way to know wether 
it's unimarc, marc21, or another marc flavor.
I've found nothing in the marc leader, and don't think there is one 
(which is definetly bad thing if i'm right)

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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)