Hi list,
I am a Metadata librarian but not a programmer, sorry if my question seems naïve. We use XSLT stylesheet to transform some harvested DC records from DSpace to MARC in MarcEdit, and then export them to OCLC.
Some characters do not display correctly and need manual editing, for example:
In MarcEditor Transferred to OCLC Edit in OCLC
Bayes’ theorem Bayes⁰́₉ theorem Bayes' theorem
―it won‘t happen here‖ attitude ⁰́₅it won⁰́₈t happen here⁰́₆ attitude "it won't happen here" attitude
“Generation Y” ⁰́₋Generation Y⁰́₊ "Generation Y"
listeners‟ evaluations listeners⁰́ evaluations listeners' evaluations
high school – from high school ⁰́₃ from high school – from
Co₀․₅Zn₀․₅Fe₂O₄ Co²́⁰⁰́Þ²́⁵Zn²́⁰⁰́Þ²́⁵Fe²́²O²́⁴ Co0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4?
μ Îơ μ
Nafion® Nafion℗ʼ Nafion®
Lévy L©♭vy Lévy
43±13.20 years 43℗ł13.20 years 43±13.20 years
12.6 ± 7.05 ft∙lbs 12.6 ℗ł 7.05 ft⁸́₉lbs 12.6 ± 7.05 ft•lbs
‘Pouring on the Pounds' ⁰́₈Pouring on the Pounds' 'Pouring on the Pounds'
k-ε turbulence k-Îæ turbulence k-ε turbulence
student—neither parents student⁰́₄neither parents student-neither parents
Λ = M – {p1, p2,…,pκ} Î₎ = M ⁰́₃ {p1, p2,⁰́Œ,pÎð} ? (won’t save)
M = (0, δ)x × Y M = (0, Îþ)x ©₇ Y ?
100° 100℗ð 100⁰
(α ≥16º) (Îł ⁹́Æ16℗ð) (α>=16⁰)
naïve na©¯ve naïve
To deal with this, we normally replace limited numbers of characters in MarcEditor first and then do the compiling and transfer. For example: replace ’ to ', “ to ", ” to " and ‟ to '. I am not sure about the right and efficient way to solve this problem. I see that the XSLT stylesheet specifies encoding="UTF-8". Is there a systematic way to make the character transform and display right? Thank you for your suggestion and feedback!
Sophie
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tod Olson
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 10:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] more on MARC char encoding: Now we're about ISO_2709 and MARC21
In practice it seems to mean UTF-8. At least I've only seen UTF-8, and I can't imagine the code that processes this stuff being safe for UTF-16 or UTF-32. All of the offsets are byte-oriented, and there's too much legacy code that makes assumption about null-terminated strings.
-Tod
On Apr 17, 2012, at 6:55 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> Okay, forget XML for a moment, let's just look at marc 'binary'.
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> First, for Anglophone-centric MARC21.
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> The LC docs don't actually say quite what I thought about leader byte 09, used to advertise encoding:
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> a - UCS/Unicode
> Character coding in the record makes use of characters from the Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) (ISO 10646), or Unicode™, an industry subset.
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> That doesn't say UTF-8. It says UCS or "Unicode". What does that actually mean? Does it mean UTF-8, or does it mean UTF-16 (closer to what used to be called "UCS" I think?). Whatever it actually means, do people violate it in the wild?
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> Now we get to non-Anglophone centric marc. I think all of which is ISO_2709? A standard which of course is not open access, so I can't get it to see what it says.
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> But leader 09 being used for encoding -- is that Marc21 specific, or is it true of any ISO-2709? Marc8 and "unicode" being the only valid encodings can't be true of any ISO-2709, right?
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> Is there a generic ISO-2709 way to deal with this, or not so much?
