So excited to say marc-8 in a message that I misspoke. UTF-8 to latin-1 conversion. Ralph > -----Original Message----- > From: LeVan,Ralph > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 10:35 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: RE: [CODE4LIB] unwanted (bogus) characters in marc > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf > Of > > Ross Singer > > > > Eric, is this your source file? > > > > > http://ia341306.us.archive.org/1/items/bienfaitsducatho00pina/bienfaitsd ucatho0 > > 0pina_meta.mrc > > If that is the record you're looking at, then it looks like a classic case of a marc-8 > encoded record being converted to latin-1 somewhere along the way. > > Ralph