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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 can't be solved by one of the options that Ed mentioned) before making this much of a priority. -Ross. On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 further now.... > > Jonathan > > Ed Summers wrote: >> >> 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 [3] from >> IndexData which provides much more (and faster) MARC related character >> mapping facilities. >> >> If you just want to get something done without extending ruby-marc you >> can pre-process your data with yaz-marcdump and then throw it at >> ruby-marc. Or perhaps if you are in jruby-land you could use marc4j >> which has MARC-8 support. >> >> I've cc'ed code4lib since someone else might have some better ideas. >> Thanks for writing. >> >> //Ed >> >> [1] >> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ehs-pobox/pymarc/dev/annotate/head%3A/pymarc/marc8.py >> [2] >> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ehs-pobox/pymarc/dev/annotate/head%3A/pymarc/marc8_mapping.py >> [3] http://www.indexdata.com/yaz/doc/yaz-iconv.html >> [4] http://marc4j.tigris.org/ >> >> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Brendan Boesen <[log in to unmask]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Guys, >>> >>> I guess this is the 'bug the authors if you need it' email. >>> >>> I'm trying to parse a MARC record and it contains Chinese characters. >>> From >>> the leader: >>> 01051cam 2200265 a 4504 >>> it looks like the record uses MARC8 encoding. >>> >>> I'm investigating a way to get a Unicode encoded one but that may not >>> work >>> out. What sort of effort do you think is involved in adding MARC8 >>> support >>> into marc-ruby? (And is there anything I could do to help with that?) >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Brendan Boesen >>> National Library of Australia >>> >>> >>> >> >> >