MarcEdit isn't open source. If you need open source and don't mind java marc4j handles round trip conversion. "Support for data conversions from MARC-8 ANSEL, ISO5426 or ISO6937 to UCS/Unicode and back." http://marc4j.tigris.org/ Quoting Marc Chantreux <[log in to unmask]>: > hello, > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 01:31:39PM +0000, Joseph Montibello wrote: >> Hi, >> >> There's a perl module that should do this: >> http://perldoc.koha-community.org/v3.00.00-stableRC1/C4/Charset.html > > i really don't plan to install koha but i can steal the C4::Charset > stuff to get it out of koha. > > AFAIR, there is no way to come back from UTF8 to iso5426. am i right ? > >> MarcEdit lists a recent enhancement that supports iso5426 as well. >> http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php > > oh! is this open source? i has no success in searching for a source > repository. > > regards > > -- > Marc Chantreux > Direction Informatique > http://unistra.fr >