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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 >> >> >> > >