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
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> 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