Hi Marc, > i would like to process some data from biblio records. they > sadly are encoded in iso5426 and i have to take them back in > the same charset. there are some Java conversion tools available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/dnb-conv-tools/>. For the conversion from MAB2 to UTF-8 use the following command: >java -jar XMab2Utf8-1.9.4.jar -i file_in -o file_out A conversion back from UTF-8 to MAB2 is not available. It would be lossy... > right now, i found enc2xs and i'm trying to write a UCM > (Unicode character mapping) which seems to be a good way to > write a conversion table that can be used in every langage. I´ve tried to use enc2xs with the UCM table from <https://metacpan.org/module/Encode::MAB2>, but had no success... Regards, Johann