On May 2, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Mark A. Matienzo wrote:

>> Does the -t flag in yaz-marcdump tell the program to convert characters in MARC records to specific character sets, or does merely change the value in a MARC leader to denote the character set of the record as a whole? In other words, will yaz-marcdump do its best to convert MARC-8 characters found in MARC records into a UTF-8 characters?
> 
> yaz-marcdump -t tells the program to perform the conversion. It does
> *not* change the leader/09 value automatically - you need to do that
> using the -l flag.


This is what I was hoping. Thank you.

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Eric Morgan