[Koha-devel] Re: MARC character encoding

[Ed Summers]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:15:07AM +0100, paul POULAIN wrote:
> Francois lemarchand sended me a little script to translate éà... into 
> 8859-1 standard characters. I've included it in the addbiblio.pl script 
> (when the system finds a biblio in the breeding farm)
> It seems to work. Things are definetly strange in char encoding.
> 
> Uploaded in cvs a few minuts ago

I'm looking at the script. From the comments it looks like Francois'
code is converting from ISO 5426 to ISO 8859-1. How are character sets
handled in UNIMARC? I'm guessing there are more character sets than ISO
5426 which can be used.

I just checked and Perl's Encode::* modules don't seem to handle ISO 5426 :( 
which is a shame. It is even more a shame that ISO doesn't make these standards public. I'm going to subscribe to perl-unicode at perl.org and see if I can find 
out more.

//Ed

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Ed Summers
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