Was not talking about MarcXML in this thread, shifted to talking about Marc21 binary, changed the subject and started a new thread accordingly. On 4/18/2012 10:23 AM, LeVan,Ralph wrote: >> In fact, I worry that the standard may pre-date UTF-8, with it's >> reference to "UCS" --- if I understand things right, at one point > there >> was only one unicode encoding, called "UCS", which is basically a >> backwards-compatible subset of what became UTF-16. > >> So I worry the standard really "means" UCS/UTF-16. > > Now you're just trying to scare yourself. I've never seen UTF-16 > MarcXML. I've never seen anything but UTF-8 encoded MarcXML. > > Ralph >