v0.5.0 - Extensive rewrite of MARC::Reader (ISO 2709 binary reader) to provide a fairly complete and consistent handing of char encoding issues in ruby 1.9. - This code is well covered by automated tests, but ends up complex, there may be bugs, please report them. - May not work properly under jruby with non-unicode source encodings. - Still can't handle Marc8 encoding. - May not have entirely backwards compatible behavior with regard to char encodings under ruby 1.9.x as previous 0.4.x versions. Test your code. In particular, previous versions may have automatically _transcoded_ non-unicode encodings to UTF-8 for you. This version will not do so unless you ask it to with correct arguments. `gem install ruby-marc -v 0.5.0 ` https://github.com/ruby-marc/ruby-marc