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If I understand correctly, there's some support for this in pymarc as well: https://github.com/edsu/pymarc/blob/master/pymarc/marc8.py#L22 -Mike On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 14:52, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Woah, there is a library in Perl to do that? Sweet! Okay, now I know two > languages with such a library, Perl and Java. > > Anyone want to write one for ruby? :) > > On 10/24/2011 2:47 PM, Doran, Michael D wrote: >>> >>> Okay. How do I go about converting MARC-8 encoded records into UTF-8? >> >> In Perl... using the handy MARC::Charset module (tip 'o the hat to Ed >> Summers, and now maintained by Galen Charlton). >> >> -- Michael >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of >>> Eric >>> Lease Morgan >>> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 1:39 PM >>> To: [log in to unmask] >>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] marc-8 >>> >>> On Oct 24, 2011, at 2:34 PM, Doran, Michael D wrote: >>> >>>>> In Perl, how do I specify MARC-8 when reading (decoding) and writing >>>>> (encoding) data? >>>> >>>> You can't. MARC-8 is a character set that is unknown to the operating >>> >>> system. Your best bet is to convert MARC-8-encoded records into UTF-8. >>> >>> /me throws his hands up in the air and screams! >>> >>> Okay. How do I go about converting MARC-8 encoded records into UTF-8? I >>> know >>> yaz-marcdump changes the encoding bit in MARC leaders. Does it also >>> convert >>> MARC-8 characters to UTF-8? (I guess I could simply try it and see what >>> happens.) >>> >>> -- >>> Eric Morgan >